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 | kyvette
Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 194 Central Kentucky 
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2005-05-25 111502
Last Friday morning our SCADA system indicated alarms at one of our industrial substations. A crew was send to investigate.
They found a red tail hawk laying on the primary conductor with part of a black snake held in one of its talons. Apparently the snake was giving the hawk problems which resulted in the snake wrapping its self around two primary phases creating the outage. We think the snake was approximately 6 feet long. The voltage on this circuit is 13.2KV. Check out my picture number 12.
Outages created by birds and squirrels are common, but this is the first time any of us had seen this situation.
I thought you might this interesting. Dave
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 | hardwood
Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 3583 iowa 
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2005-05-25 111506
It's not a real common sight, but probably a half dozen times I've saw a hawk take off with a snake in it's grasp. This spring I had several red tail hawks watch over me as I tilled ahead of the corn planter, they would pick up a mouse on a pretty regular basis. If we only had eyesight like them. Frank. ....
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Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1288 Wisconsin 
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2005-05-28 111628
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My wife does every time I drop a crumb on her kitchen floor. She can see a water spot on the crome of the faucet at 50 yards (While walking away!) In the dark!!!! ....
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