This sucks
"BOSTON - A student touring Fenway Park was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from a girl's scalp Thursday.
The girl was taken by ambulance to a hospital, but wasn't seriously injured. The hawk was perched on a railing in the upper deck behind home plate while the group from Memorial Boulevard Middle School in Bristol, Conn., toured the stadium. The hawk flew at the girl and swooper with its talons extended, scratching her scalp.
A single egg lay in the hawk's nearby nest in an overhang near the stadium's press booth.
The nest and egg were removed at the direction of state wildlife officials."
Uh, yeah. If you clear out a couple of acres into a nice field surrounded by lots of pigeons and gulls and provide hundreds of nesting sites, you're going to get a hawk moving in. And if she tries to protect her nest and egg, it must be her fault. GRRR! Couldn't they have discouraged her from building a nest there in the first place so she'd at least have a chance at raising her kid without it being killed because she was trying to protect it? Duh?
And the hawk involved is so young she still has juvenile spots on her back and wings:
http://www.dailymotion.com/country:us/video/x4y7sj_fenway-hawk_news
The girl was taken by ambulance to a hospital, but wasn't seriously injured. The hawk was perched on a railing in the upper deck behind home plate while the group from Memorial Boulevard Middle School in Bristol, Conn., toured the stadium. The hawk flew at the girl and swooper with its talons extended, scratching her scalp.
A single egg lay in the hawk's nearby nest in an overhang near the stadium's press booth.
The nest and egg were removed at the direction of state wildlife officials."
Uh, yeah. If you clear out a couple of acres into a nice field surrounded by lots of pigeons and gulls and provide hundreds of nesting sites, you're going to get a hawk moving in. And if she tries to protect her nest and egg, it must be her fault. GRRR! Couldn't they have discouraged her from building a nest there in the first place so she'd at least have a chance at raising her kid without it being killed because she was trying to protect it? Duh?
And the hawk involved is so young she still has juvenile spots on her back and wings:
http://www.dailymotion.com/country:us/video/x4y7sj_fenway-hawk_news