Brooklyn-style bird street-fighting...

That was great. Love brooklyn boids!

Awesome airwar action!

There are many red tailed hawks living in and around Prospect Park. They are always on the prowl for rats, squirrels, pigeons, or whatever small birds they can catch. You can often see them wheeling above the rooftops, looking for food. Last Sunday at PPW I saw a hawk dive bomb into a bunch of pigeons right in front of me, but he failed to make contact.

I once saw a big hawk at Grand Army Plaza near St Johns, plucking a fat pigeon on a tree branch. Tufts of feathers floating down drew my eye to the kill. Two agitated mockingbirds were dive bombing the hawk, pecking and plucking its back feathers with loud ratchety alarm calls. The hawk mostly ignored the pesky birds as it pulled feathers from the dead pigeon's breast with its beak. If the mockingbirds scored a painful hit the hawk would fluff up and sidestep the branch a little. Eventually the hawk tired of the harassment and took off, the prey hanging from its talons, the angry mockingbirds in hot pursuit.

by "pigeon", do you mean fixed-gear cyclist riding against traffic?

and by "mockingbird", you mean double-parked mercedes?



then i've seen this wildlife phenomenon before