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It would be difficult to imagine a scene less adapted to brutal drama than the garden outside our kitchen window yet death does play there<\/a> in front of our eyes. On Monday I was startled by a thump and a squeak, like the air going out of a tennis ball, and looked out to see a small hawk hunched on the lawn, with something black and indistinct beneath its talons. Its tail feathers were spread out, brown and barred with black and grey; the shoulders were raised, and the wings half shrouded what it was doing. The hawk was facing away but I had the impression it had landed after the momentum of its stoop had carried it down from the fence. I made a sound of some sort and it flew about five yards further away; its first landing had been no more than twenty feet from where I sat. I could see something, tattered, hanging in its talons. There was another brief interlude, something between a shuffle and a struggle, and it took flight over the garden shed and away. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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