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Death Of The Great Pretender

    Hey, everyone. This is a track of a raccoon. I found it under water at the creek behind my house. Notice their long and nimble fingers? I had a silly post a while back about a raccoon playing a guitar. Those fingers make you wonder if they could be taught many things. Notice the thumb. By the way, some deep prints will still be discernible after several days with water flowing over them.
     Today at work I saw something rather cool. I walked outside to get something out of my car. There was a mockingbird sitting on a power line. I saw a flash of color and the mockingbird sort of exploded in a barrage of feathers as a hawk hit him. A hawk gets such impetus because he folds his wings and dives like a maniac. There is no fight and there is no battle and there is no mercy. The hawk just comes from such a great height that he is an irresistible force.
    The odd thing about this was not the unfortunate demise of the mockingbird, however. A few months ago I did a post here on the blog about a mockingbird that was having some fun with a squirrel. The mockingbird was hidden in a leafy tree and he was watching this family of squirrels. He would imitate the screech of a hawk and the squirrels would just go ape. They are deathly afraid of hawks and for good reason. The squirrels 'fuss' when they get upset, chattering and doing this odd sound that sounds kind of like they are trying to clear their throat. Anyway, the squirrels would quiet down and the mockingbird would cry out like a hawk again. He was driving the squirrels nuts, no pun intended. The squirrels deserve to be messed with because they are not nice people. One day there were about 8 squirrels playing in the yard and a shadow passed over them as a hawk floated by, high overhead. It was hilarious the way those squirrels disappeared.
       My thought today at work was that the mockingbird could have been imitating a hawk, and a hawk heard him and decided to punch his ticket. That would be cool to document, don't you think?
    On an unrelated topic, let me tell you about a video I saw on AOL.com today. There is a pod (a group) of killer whales off the coast of California who have devised a plan to kill sharks. It seems that one of them will zoom in on a Great White Shark from the side and smash into it. While the shark is stunned the killer whale takes the shark in its mouth and turns him upside down so that the shark suffocates. Then the killer whale and his good buddies eat the shark. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, I suppose.
    Hey, do you think that Apple named their music device after a group of whales?
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