The Red Sox have yet to play a game inside Fenway Park this season — that comes in their home opener against Detroit on Tuesday– but that doesn’t mean there’s not already some action inside its pearly gates. Oh no, friends. You see, some middle schoolers were taking a nice little tour of the park when OHMYGOD LOOK OUT FOR THAT HAWK LITTLE GIRL!

A student touring Fenway Park was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from a girl’s scalp Thursday.

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The hawk was perched on a railing in the upper deck behind home plate while the group from Memorial Boulevard Middle School in Bristol, Conn., toured the stadium. The hawk flew at the girl and swooper with its talons extended, scratching her scalp.

Wildlife officials took out the nest along with an egg that was perched up near the press booth, so hopefully the threat of hawk attacks have been severely decreased inside Fenway. I suppose this hawk may have just been protecting its kin. Or maybe it was a serial killer hawk. Or a drunk hawk.

Or maybe it was just hawky being hawky.

source: Hawk attacks student at Fenway [sports illustrated]