Thanks for believing me, Miss PC lol
Annoying those invisible pics, I just cut and paste it from my email at work and I see it here (at work), but I know there's a lot of pic that I can not see from here, but I see them at home. Anyway, the caracara pic is very dark,half cutted and kind of blurry since I tried to protect my face from his claws while taking the pic, so you can imagine what the pic look like... you don't miss too much.
These agressive caracara are called Johny Rook (spelling ?) and can only be seen on Sea Lion island, one island of the Falklands. They're studied by paleontologists who try to understand how dinosaurs were able to hunt in pack. These behavioural findings have inspired Spielberg for its velociraptors scenes in jurassic park.
According to the Falklanders raising shheps, these animals can killed little sheep by harassing them, exhausting them and frightening them. Once the sheep has broken a leg in it's escape, he's attacked by the birds. They go for the eyes first.
I had one intimidating caracara flying over me and the fellow of the pic. That one followed me like a dog on the beach and then scratched the top of my head with his claws twice. Luckily I was wearing a wool cap.
Here's another cut and paste of the first low flight and also a clearer pic of another caracara following me like a dog before another attack. (just in case anybody could see the pics...)
Imagine an eagle following you like a dog waiting to get a chance to bite you, you get the picture of the way I felt...
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[img height=379 src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/pigeonm/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/OLK1F/DSC01492%20(2).jpg" width=505]
If anybody is interested, I have pics of a dead pinguin, his head remove by a caracara, and dead sheeps also.
Oh yea, sorry for the sceptic, I also got charged by a sea lion that same day lol, but ok this one I was top of a cliff and I pitched him some rock so that he move his big a**. lol, he charged to intimidated me but I was too high for that fatso of 900 lbs. Blurry pics availalble on request (I broke my camera on that trip)
