"They" are blaming that big fire in California on a raptor that hit a high tension line, and fell to the ground in flames. That makes me angry. It is not the fault of the bird. The bird is not "to blame" for anything. It was the high tension line that started the fire. Human hubris. We screw with Nature, then blame Nature when it does what comes naturally. The bird is as much a victim as anyone or anything else that burned.
A high tension wire is like a huge lit match just waiting to zap something. What the heck are they doing passing through forests? And then you clear the land around and under the wires, encouraging rabbits and other raptor-bait varmints. The bird had to hit two wires to "burst into flame", so why weren't the wires farther apart than the wingspan of the largest birds that the cleared area would attract? Blaming this on the beastie is like setting a lit candle on the sill of an open window, then blaming the curtain when the house burns down.
(And how did they determine a flaming hawk "started" the fire, anyway? His charred remains were probably near a charred bush. Maybe a biblical burning bush started the fire.)
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"Maybe a biblical burning bush started the fire."
NO ... "That" bush was a non-consuming fire (as far as temporal things are concerned).
And YOU are right ... human self-righteousness started the fire.
In this area, people complain because the deer are invading human territory. PARDON!!!
BTW - in the ten years we've lived in Tyrone, we've had all the following "critters" in our backyard: coon, porkies, skunk, rabbits, swans, geese, ducks, red fox [NOT Red Foxx], squirrel, opossom, black snake, water snake, garter snake, American brown bear, white tail deer and countless creepy-crawley things.
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