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Washington Street briefly turned into the scene of a fierce animal face-off yesterday morning – leaving a hawk victorious and a chicken dead, despite the valiant efforts of a hen and rooster to protect their fallen friend.
After seeing traffic stopped near 488 Washington St., Officer Michael Doyle left his cruiser and saw “a hawk which was fighting off a rooster and a hen while standing on top of an injured chicken,” said Lt. Robert Nedder.
He said the hawk tried to eat one of the chickens, and while attempting to kill that chicken, a rooster came over to defend it, and a hen was also trying to get the hawk away.
“I am sorry to say that the chicken perished. The chicken did not survive,” Nedder said. “The hawk won.”
The bird-on-bird encounter was called in to police dispatchers at 11:15 a.m. The animals reside at 496 Washington St., just outside Dedham Square, according to the police log.
Nedder said police are still investigating the chickens’ owners, and spoke with the Board of Health about the regulations for people keeping chickens on their property.
Animal Rescue League officials captured the rooster, and removed the dead chicken from the walkway, Nedder said.
Dedham Transcript staff writer Edward B. Colby can be reached at 781-433-8336 or ecolby@cnc.com.
Washington Street briefly turned into the scene of a fierce animal face-off yesterday morning – leaving a hawk victorious and a chicken dead, despite the valiant efforts of a hen and rooster to protect their fallen friend.
After seeing traffic stopped near 488 Washington St., Officer Michael Doyle left his cruiser and saw “a hawk which was fighting off a rooster and a hen while standing on top of an injured chicken,” said Lt. Robert Nedder.
He said the hawk tried to eat one of the chickens, and while attempting to kill that chicken, a rooster came over to defend it, and a hen was also trying to get the hawk away.
“I am sorry to say that the chicken perished. The chicken did not survive,” Nedder said. “The hawk won.”
The bird-on-bird encounter was called in to police dispatchers at 11:15 a.m. The animals reside at 496 Washington St., just outside Dedham Square, according to the police log.
Nedder said police are still investigating the chickens’ owners, and spoke with the Board of Health about the regulations for people keeping chickens on their property.
Animal Rescue League officials captured the rooster, and removed the dead chicken from the walkway, Nedder said.
Dedham Transcript staff writer Edward B. Colby can be reached at 781-433-8336 or ecolby@cnc.com.
