All Our Raptors Are Overdone

As has been mentioned here several times, the "Solunar Tables" are very useful in predicting when wildlife is moving about, on land or in water. The "Tables" are singular, in that they give you the best times for days better and worse, and, barring extraordinary circumstances (you know, howling summer or winter storms, forest fires, high winds blowing on-shore, very low or high pressure, and such) are almost sure predictors for times to look for wildlife.
These tables are meaningless to a hunter with the time to spend dawn-to-dark in the woods, or the electronic angler. The former will just be there, and the guy with the depth-finder and a fish-finder will drop enough hardware on the snouts of otherwise don't give-a-shit fish to keep some pace in the day.
Oh, yeah, and the crankers, the guys who emulate the Pros (yes, Virginia, there are pro fishermen. The fact there are professional recreational ((what the fuck?)) fishermen is why we are all going to hell. Even you, Virginia. Especially you.) The crankers try to cover every inch of the lake, casting and reeling furiously (cranking) for hours on end, until their arms need ice and cortisone.
I'm a cranker of some note, although not in this pursuit. Every "1-900" operator in every English-speaking country knows me as "Uncle Cranker".
Okay, this points up the fact many things are better left unsaid.
Driving east on Howard (Kokomo) Co. road 400N, I passed a large red tail atop a low pole next to the road. I went back and came past again, and she watched me closely, intently, but made no move to fly. None. I was awestruck by how close together her huge eyes were, like falcon, perhaps from a "knitted" brow. Magnificent.
That afternoon I came upon a red tail hanging by one talon from a wire next to a pole, macrowaved.
It is amazing, with all the superanal regulatory attention paid to even fucking raptor feathers, that utility companies are permitted to operate power poles that are not grounded.
I risk a fine for picking up a red tail feather and sticking it in my hat, but Duke can operate sub-standard equipment and bake that same red tail to a crisp without reprisal.
Never think for a second this is a country of the people.