PLANO — Meet Harvey the Hurricane Hawk.
That’s what the birdie was named after she reportedly hailed a taxi in Houston and refused to leave.
According to the cab driver recording the video, she swooped into the cab and perched herself in the front seat.
Turns out, she just about had enough of Hurricane Harvey before it hit — and simply wouldn’t leave!
She eventually made her way to Blackland Prairie Raptor Center in Plano.
“There was a whole sequence that had to occur for this bird to get this final opportunity,” explained Erich Nupert with the center.
On Wednesday, Harvey the Hurricane Hawk was released at Oak Point Park.
“She did exactly what a Cooper’s hawk is supposed to do,” Nupert added. “They fly fast, they’re very mobile; she took off like a rocket right into the woods!”
Guess you can say Harvey is free as a bird.
Hawk that escaped Hurricane Harvey in a taxi released in Plano
Long live, Harvey!! He knew who to trust.
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“According to the cab driver recording the video, she swooped into the cab and perched herself in the front seat.”
This one took the ‘any port in a storm’ seriously.
These birds are far more intelligent than most of the dumbed-down sheeple I meet these days.
So true, #1. Here’s a quote I came across recently:
“We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.”
— Henry Beston, The Outermost House
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There are very few types of birds that I don’t like, galen. Most of them I do.
Almost the opposite when it comes to sheeple.
I certainly agree. They never learned to fly.
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True, but they’re great at duck & cover…
… when it comes to TRUTH.