Hawk Attacks At Fenway Park - With Video
A red-tailed hawk lost its choice seat behind home plate at Fenway Park today after the raptor scratched a middle school girl on a tour, drawing blood from her eyebrow.
The girl was in the upper deck behind home plate, some 40 feet from the hawk’s nest, where a single egg lay in an overhang near the press booth. The hawk had been perched on a railing and swooped at the girl with its talons extended. She was taken by ambulance to a local hospital.
“The girl is fine,” said Red Sox spokeswoman Susan Goodenow, who said the team followed up with the girl’s group from Memorial Boulevard Middle School in Bristol, Conn.
“The nest and the egg were removed by the Boston Animal Rescue League at the direction of the director of Massachusetts Fish and Wildlife,” Goodenow said.
It was the second incident with a hawk in the park in the last two days. It has been common for the birds to take up residence in the stadium rafters in the off-season, dining on rats and mice when the park is quiet.
“When the season starts and there is lots of noise, they usually find a new home,” Goodenow said.
(Boston Globe)
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motherly insincts. 1/10 the size but will still take on pesky humans to protect the baby lol. Gotta love mother nature. I got bombarded with attacks from barnswallows when hunting on the creek by our bridge, mothers had a good 100 houses built on the concrete beams, once a few got pissed they all came out and were swooping at me. .22 cal and not a shotgun, so they had me outgunned LOL
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:20 amshe must have been a yankee fan.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 pmIf they are going to relocate the hawk and its nest I’d first ask the Berkley based Marine recruitment center if they’d like to adopt a mascot. Maybe the bird will attack some of the ‘doves’ and ‘bats parading in front of their office.
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
insight. Good insight. No doubt it was a Yankee fan.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:56 pmMarc
Red Sox Batboy 1969-1971.