Nature is brutal innit

[The Cincinnati Kid]

So every year I set up a hummingbird feeder and every year they show up around the 1st week of May. They like red so the feeder is red and I put red flowers nearby in case they like real flower food. Mostly they prefer the sugar water though.
Anyhoo, I'm sitting out watching one of them feed, sipping on my pinot and dragging on the Cuban.
Out of nowhere a dark shadow blots out the sun. A hawk the size of a small dog swoops in and that's the end of 1 hummer.

Brutal.

[uspompeyfan]

Surely you are an accessory to this murder, or humicide.

[HappyHour@TheBreweryOfLife]

*Bird-er.

[This Time Next Year]

Hawks gotta eat innit.

[Milkins]

Nature is definitely brutal - but we're supposed to know better...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32718813

[pompeygunner]

Saw a Sparrowhawk catch, defeather & eat a starling in my neighbors garden. The thing was I assumed the starling was dead after being defeathered & partially eaten but it was moving its head even then.
It is brutal but its natures way.

[Weybridge]

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[Mickemo]

Not quite on the scale of the video above but my cat once caught a squirrel and ate it....

[Bluesbro']

Brutal but also amazing.

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