Indeed its a heart touching story behind the capture. Sorry about your little friend though .
Sometime we do have a chance to save animals, but better to leave it to the Nature, for it knows better to balance!

I have always wondered about this in my mind. There are so many ways

The story as told by

- The Shikra
- The Squirrel mother
- Onlooker who likes raptors
- Onlooker who likes the squirrel
- A poet
- A Scientist
- etc

All these stories will be so different. By hearing them I wonder if we will know it is the same event or multiple events

(Not to forget some of the popular news channels ha ha ha )

That is a nice observation Raj. At the end, I think it is all an unresolved mystery of the highest order. Except for plants, I am not aware of a moving living subject which lives feeding only on a non-living objects in the nature. Every such living creation of nature seem to rely on some other creation of nature for living! We seem to have disproportionately large part of non-living part of the planet available as "food" (and deposited back). However Nature seem to have preserved it by creating a chains of life. This appears interesting to me. Was this forced on the Nature to have this as a design? Who is there to "force it"? Was it inevitable? BTW, I am not implying "God" in the traditional sense here.

I have come often to see n feel this moment with your POV as well as few others .. I feel speechless n sad, despite of knowing n accepting the nature of nature
May you have more friends at your window n the shikra find food elsewhere!
Regards.

It is difficult to witness the pain friendly squirrel is going through. Harsh reality. May you get many more friends soon.

I like the views expressed by Raj