A hawk that terrorized a sleepy English village for weeks was finally captured on Thursday, ending a string of around 50 attacks that landed a 75-year-old man in the hospital, disrupted postal deliveries, and stole two woollen beanies belonging to a 91-year-old man. <\/p>\n
Greenhalgh had stopped at Flamstead, a small village about 30 miles north of London, on his way home, to boost efforts to catch the bird. Just as he arrived, he saw the hawk fly down from a chimneypot, \u201cchase a guy across the road and tried to \u2026 knock him on the head,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI thought \u2018Oh, you horrible little bird.\u2019 Then he had a go at an Amazon driver. And I think \u2018Oh my goodness me,\u2019\u201d Greenhalgh added. <\/p>\n
Then, he watched as Harris left his house to go for a run \u201cand (the hawk) starts chasing him down the road \u2026 for about 3-400 yards and you can see him ducking, diving out the way a bit.\u201d <\/p>\n
Chaotic scenes like this had become commonplace in Flamstead in recent weeks, with some locals resorting to wearing helmets to protect themselves from the attacks. <\/p>\n
Harris even began wearing a helmet when he went out running after he had been attacked twice, he told Britain\u2019s PA Media news agency. He hadn\u2019t let his two children out in the backyard for weeks since it became one of the hawk\u2019s favored spots, he added. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Glyn Parry \u2013 a 91-year-old resident \u2013 made a chinstrap out of a shoelace to keep his hat on his head after the hawk stole two of his woollen beanies. \u201cIt was such an unusual thing, so I thought it won\u2019t happen again, but it did,\u201d he told the BBC. <\/strong> <\/p>\n The hawk\u2019s reign of mayhem came to an end on Thursday, when it went into a local garden, where Greenhalgh spent about 40 minutes trying to coax it down into a trap before it flew back to Harris\u2019 yard. <\/p>\n \u201cI heard Steve shouting \u2018Quick, quick, I think I\u2019ve got it,\u2019\u201d Greenhalgh said, recalling that he rushed into the yard to help Harris stop the hawk escaping the makeshift trap. <\/p>\n The hawk is now \u201cin a specialised aviary, awaiting re-training,\u201d local police said in a statement. <\/p>\n Jim Hewitt, the 75-year-old man who was treated in hospital for hawk-inflicted injuries, said he was \u201crelieved\u201d it had had been caught, according to Britain\u2019s PA Media news agency. <\/p>\n \u201cI had to be careful and cautious \u2013 the sensible thing was to drive to the shop, but I won\u2019t get beaten by a poxy bird,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m relieved that it\u2019s been caught and not had to be put to death or shot. And I\u2019m even more relieved that a child isn\u2019t going to get hurt.\u201d <\/p>\n Tall, bald men were the most frequent targets of the attacks, said Greenhalgh, theorizing that the hawk \u201cwas getting a little bit hormonal and he\u2019s looking for a \u2026 mate\u201d now that it is breeding season. <\/p>\n He explained that birds of prey can imprint on their owners if they\u2019re hand-reared and said that this hawk had probably been raised by a tall, bald man. \u201cBecause they\u2019re totally humanized, he thinks he\u2019s a human, he doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s a hawk,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A hawk that terrorized a sleepy English village for weeks was finally captured on Thursday, ending a string of around 50 attacks that landed a 75-year-old man in the hospital, disrupted postal deliveries, and stole…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}