spantini
COO of me, inc.
There's a straight piece of road running parallel to my building. There's a long sidewalk with a low hedge that runs about 150 ft. The strip of ground below the hedge is covered with mulch.
The area surrounding my building is mostly single family homes, and there is a rather large population of free ranging roosters and their hens. Every day these roosters, each with several hens, work their way down the hedge as if it were a cafeteria buffet. They scratch the mulch away, out onto the nice, clean sidewalk in search of food - worms, assorted bugs and lizards.. much to the chagrin of our grounds maintenance.
Well, a couple of days ago Mother Nature supplied a temporary solution to this messy sidewalk. I was on one of my many daily walks around the neighborhood when I started down this sidewalk on my homestretch. about a third of the way down I spied a hawk deconstructing a hen, just at the base of the hedge. The hawk let me approach to within about 10 ft. then flew off to a nearby tree to perch and watch as I examined the scene. There was the poor hen with a rather large hole in it and many feathers scattered about. I continued on. When I returned several hours later the hen and the hawk were nowhere to be found. Hmm.. carry out.
The roosters still forage on the property along with their hens, but nary a one has been anywhere near that hedge since that day. The mulch has remained nicely mounded and the sidewalk is clean.
The End
The area surrounding my building is mostly single family homes, and there is a rather large population of free ranging roosters and their hens. Every day these roosters, each with several hens, work their way down the hedge as if it were a cafeteria buffet. They scratch the mulch away, out onto the nice, clean sidewalk in search of food - worms, assorted bugs and lizards.. much to the chagrin of our grounds maintenance.
Well, a couple of days ago Mother Nature supplied a temporary solution to this messy sidewalk. I was on one of my many daily walks around the neighborhood when I started down this sidewalk on my homestretch. about a third of the way down I spied a hawk deconstructing a hen, just at the base of the hedge. The hawk let me approach to within about 10 ft. then flew off to a nearby tree to perch and watch as I examined the scene. There was the poor hen with a rather large hole in it and many feathers scattered about. I continued on. When I returned several hours later the hen and the hawk were nowhere to be found. Hmm.. carry out.
The roosters still forage on the property along with their hens, but nary a one has been anywhere near that hedge since that day. The mulch has remained nicely mounded and the sidewalk is clean.
The End