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Posted by kurt d. on 18:05:19 11/08/07
In Reply to: My reply (lengthy) posted by Rock Jetty
a personal apology. i did not mean to insult you with man up, just a figure of speech to me, my bad, that won't happen again. if i'm going to make enemies, let it be for my unclean thoughts [blasting those hawks] not a lack of class. let me assure all of you, for the third time now, i have not, nor do i intend to, harm in any way or interfere with the lives of the hawks. they are free to wreak havoc as they see fit. i am just a very unhappy spectator to the carnage. when i started these topics from hell, i had three very specific purposes. first, to explore any possible link between the decline of the anis, and the rebound of the cooper's hawk. ever see an ani fly? they're not exactly barn swallows. noone on the pro hawk side has touched this. second, i am of the opinion that on a small, isolated fragment of habitat such as mine, lots of predator/prey dynamics aren't normal. i would guess in a more natural setting a cooper's hawk might have a much larger hunting range and do less damage to a larger, more dispersed population of anything it preys upon. third, and this is the big one. as any top predator species rebounds, and let's face it, they all have, are they as sacred as they were when they were super rare? i think almost everyone has a point where they would see how flawed this view [once means forever sacred] can become. is that point your favorite green heron? your poultry? your dog? your child? don't get me wrong, i'm not advocating anybody taking any action at all, i just think as situations change, a frank discussion of new realities isn't a bad thing. i knew i was going to catch hell for using the words shoot and cooper's hawk in the same sentence. so be it. i just wanted to know what other thoughts are out there. peace everybody, kd
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