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			WOW !!! When I was a kid, I used to love watching birds. I had binoculars, books, cameras with long lenses, and used to go on trips to the forrest just to watch birds in the wild. One day, a friend of mine ( Jose ), brough to school ( 7th grade ) a pair of chicks of Common Buzzard ( Buteo buteo ) which had fallen from a tree. I took one of them home and hand fed him with raw meat and he survived for 4 years. I made a "T" shaped stand on the yard, and he stood there most of the time, I called him "Crazy". He will not fly far, until he was 3 years old, then he started desapearing for days, and came back very light and very hungry. I know he did not ever learn to hunt, although if I gave him live lizzards or mice he will just go really mean and wild and eat them. I used to carry him on my shoulder around town and he was quiet a show to see. One day a friend of mine told me that he saw his neighbor kill a Hawk with a Machete when the bird landed on his yard. Sure thing, I went to the man`s house and we found Crazy on the trash can inside a Sandwich Bread bag. I cried a lot. I called the man and asked him why he killed the bird and he just said that he was afraid of the bird because it seemed mean and defensive. Holding this small hawk was dangerous, the claws, about one inch long, were so powerfull that if it got a grip on your flesh, the claws will easily sink into your body. I can easily understand how easy it is for a big hawk to grab an animal by its neck and just choke him to death. 
				__________________ Make the habit of radio-checking your VHF, and use it. Father God is too busy to come down to help you himself, He sends His Angels. They have no wings, They are just your true friends. | 
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