We were stretching out to play some Ultimate today and one of the guys noticed a hawk in the woods sitting on the ground. We walked up to it and it jumped out onto the field. It had something on its foot and it wasn't flying.

We walked up to it:



Closer:



Closer:



I got 4 feet from it and saw it had some fishing line wrapped around some twigs and stuff on its leg:



So we decided to help it out.

Guy #1 stood in front of it and distracted it, I stood close to its leg with my knife, and guy #2 came up behind it with his athletic shorts. Guy #2 threw the shorts over it and the hawk laid down, I cut the line and pulled the twig away, and we took the shorts of the bird. It was very docile with the shorts laying on it. It didn't flap its wings or try to claw me. It laid there for a few seconds in a daze:


The culprit:


After we cut it loose, we left it alone and walked away. It kinda of sat on the field for a few minutes and then hopped into the woods again. We stated playing our game and about a half hour later we saw it fly away and it screeched as it flew over us and over the tree line. We all thought that was pretty cool.

6/19/2010 5:55:56 PM

Wow this is awesome. Great pics btw

6/19/2010 5:57:24 PM

Thanks!

6/19/2010 5:58:58 PM

screech = thank you

of course

6/19/2010 5:59:02 PM

NICE

6/19/2010 6:06:58 PM

cool story!! very nice of you guys to help the hawk out, i love a good rescue story

6/19/2010 6:09:20 PM

hawks are pretty awesome, good job

6/19/2010 6:11:36 PM

lol, that second to last picture you can tell that hawk clearly thought he was going to be dinner... that's his stunned expression that he's not dead.

6/19/2010 6:16:01 PM

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"we took the shorts of the bird"

Poor hawk, give him back his shorts. Seriously, that's pretty cool of you to do that. Props.

6/19/2010 6:17:36 PM

You're guys did a great job!

6/19/2010 6:36:03 PM

That is the most kickass thing I've heard all day! You, sir, deserve a beer at the very least. Plus, you play Ultimate so you get even more cool points! If I am ever in Raleigh for any given amount of time I should hit you up to go out and toss some if not get a game going.

6/19/2010 7:11:18 PM

very cool...mad props

6/19/2010 7:12:10 PM

thats awesome!

6/19/2010 7:13:15 PM

that would have been bad ass to see. im glad it was successful.

6/19/2010 7:16:37 PM

thats cool man. mad props as well ALkatraz

6/19/2010 7:26:46 PM

gg man.

tww is full of win today

6/19/2010 7:35:11 PM

You took the walking cane from a crippled bird? How low will people go these days?!






In all seriousness though, awesome work. I bet it felt good.

6/19/2010 8:34:33 PM

This thread is awesome.

6/19/2010 8:35:46 PM

awesome

man, I love to hear about people doing truly good natured things, just for the sake of helping others.

There's a very good chance that this hawk followed you home, and is going to be your gaurdian for the rest of your life. You're going to be like The Beastmaster


but you won't have to wear a ~ outfit. Unless you want to, of course.

6/19/2010 8:45:12 PM

What the fuck is ~ about that outfit? Shit is baller, son.

6/19/2010 8:57:24 PM

He wears a purse, dawg.

6/19/2010 8:58:56 PM

Well done, good thing that bird didn't fuck anyone up. Karma shall shine down upon thee.

6/19/2010 9:00:56 PM

cool story bro

6/19/2010 9:13:09 PM

haha is that josh in the first pic?


and why yall gotta play ultimate when im not in town?!!

[Edited on June 19, 2010 at 9:18 PM. Reason : f]

6/19/2010 9:14:33 PM

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"He wears a purse, dawg."

it's not a purse, it's called a satchel

6/19/2010 9:16:13 PM

Indiana Jones wears one

6/19/2010 11:53:41 PM

Quote :

"We stated playing our game and about a half hour later we saw it fly away and it screeched as it flew over us and over the tree line."

He was saying, "Thank, bro!"

6/19/2010 11:55:35 PM

Quote :

"We stated playing our game and about a half hour later we saw it fly away and it screeched as it flew over us and over the tree line."

He was saying, "NEXT TIME I SHALL PLUCK YOUR EYES FROM YOUR SKULL AND EAT THEM WHOLE!"

6/20/2010 12:02:09 AM

this reminds me of another cool bird story (true)

totally unrelated but pretty awesome

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Eagle-Named-Freedom-Jeff-Guidry/?isbn=9780061826740



dude saves this eagle, dude gets sick, eagle & him take walks. eagle starts hugging the dude with his wings. etc

i kinda cried when i watch the video

6/20/2010 12:13:52 AM

The bird was like "DON'T TAZE ME BRO!"

6/20/2010 12:14:42 AM

^^ Wow. That's awesome.

Mr. Joshua teared up a bit.

6/20/2010 12:27:28 AM

^^^ That makes me

6/20/2010 1:07:53 AM

alkatraz' eagle brings all the girls to the field.

6/20/2010 1:13:02 AM

Good job, awesome pics, but I'm calling bullshit on the screeching flyover.

[Edited on June 20, 2010 at 1:27 AM. Reason : :0]

6/20/2010 1:27:20 AM

[Edited on June 20, 2010 at 3:37 AM. Reason : shutup it's 3:30am]

6/20/2010 3:37:04 AM

Nice work, we'll call you Diego from now on

6/20/2010 8:03:57 AM

man that is like so the circle of life and stuff


also, there used to be this epic video of a hawk chasing squirrels around near bragaw. anybody remember/have that?

[Edited on June 20, 2010 at 8:17 AM. Reason : .]

6/20/2010 8:16:22 AM

That was so nice of you guys.

6/20/2010 8:28:32 AM

you one-upping motherfuckers
http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=596296

6/20/2010 9:16:24 AM

+1 on both, but the hawk gets an additional +1 simply because of the ability of a raptor to seriously fuck you up should it get the notion.


hmmm, this inspires a thread.

6/20/2010 9:28:53 AM

I could've lived my whole life without seeing that panda's coochie.

6/20/2010 9:35:07 AM

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"haha is that josh in the first pic?"

Yea. Josh, Mike, Andrew, Blake, Dan, Chris, some guy named Jeff, some guy named Nathan, and me. We only played because Chris was in town and wanted too. Also, I don't have your number.

Quote :

"I'm calling bullshit on the screeching flyover."

I have 9 earwitnesses so I don't really care if you believe or not.

6/20/2010 7:19:18 PM

def post back when that hawk one day saves your life

6/20/2010 7:29:55 PM

^^pm sent

6/20/2010 7:52:00 PM

this thread is awesome

but the eagle/cancer dude definitely fucks birds

6/20/2010 7:55:49 PM

ohhhhh i missed this thread

crazy

i have to call to check on our hawk tomorrow. i hope he makes it.

6/20/2010 7:56:48 PM

Quote :

"also, there used to be this epic video of a hawk chasing squirrels around near bragaw. anybody remember/have that?"

http://drop.io/fmz2chy

6/20/2010 9:49:27 PM

ah HA! that's it!

once again, tdub delivers

6/20/2010 10:04:34 PM

aww

6/20/2010 10:57:00 PM

Sweet! GG


Also, if you ever need an extra person for ultimate, I've been interested in finding a game for a while. Skwinkle may still be interested too.

6/20/2010 11:02:01 PM