What are some Secrets of lost people were be truly fascinating?”
Back in the Depression era, every hawk was a “chicken” hawk. In all honesty, I can’t recall a single instance where a hawk took a chicken. Weasels would sure play havoc with peeps, and raccoons would occasionally raid the hen house, but swooping hawks grabbing chickens was more a myth than a reality. When the owls go to bed after a night of hunting, the raptors begin their day as the night sky brightens in the east. Hawks are some of nature’s best predators. They have keen eyesight that can spot a mouse 100 yards below. They are fascinating raptors. “Raptor” comes from a Latin word meaning “plunderer.” It refers generally to all birds of prey and more specifically to eagles, hawks, and falcons. I don’t know how many species of raptors are in this area, but it’s possible to see the goshawk, sharp-shinned, Cooper’s red-tailed, red-shouldered, broad-winged and the falcons-peregrine (duck hawk ), merlin (pigeon hawk) and kestrel (sparrow hawk). Raptors are quick, efficient predators. They
Rolling surf. Fragran air. Azure sky. Tweeting birds. It’s another made-to-order day in paradise, postcard-perfect for surfing, hiking, communing with nature…or, you know, digging up a rotting corpse that could help keep you alive on this sand-flea-infested nightmare beach. Here on the Hawaii set of ABC’s hit drama Lost — that twisty mystery series about plane crash survivors fending for themselves on a South Pacific island inhabited by polar bears, a sadistic Frenchwoman, and unseen monsters — the cameras roll as Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Jack (Matthew Fox) stare at a mound of dirt marked with a wooden cross. ”Why didn’t you just put him with the others when you burned the fuselage?” asks Kate. ”Because I needed to bury him,” explains Dr. Jack solemnly. The two pull out some makeshift shovels and begin exhuming the dead guy, a U.S. marshal who was bringing fugitive Kate to justice before disaster struck. See, this marshal carried a wallet. And that wallet contained a key. And
