

I really wish I could have stopped and taken a photo with my handy camera-phone, but I was on a busy street with those annoying "no parking at any time" signs and no room to pull over out of traffic. I was surprised to see it there; while that field was easily within flying range of the water, it was very inhospitable looking: an acre or so of dry, golden brown, utterly dead grass. It was the kind of place that should attract hawks, not water birds. Perhaps there was too much competition for food at the river.
I was driving slow, but was still past it before I had time to gawk as much as I wanted. It looked like the bird tried to swallow the rodent, but found it too big. It was trying again when I lost sight of it.
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