Tweekums This short opens, like so many 'Tom and Jerry' stories do, with Tom trying to lure Jerry into a trap; this time he succeeds in catching him in a sandwich and is just about to bite into him when an eagle swoops down and snatches the sandwich away. Jerry is no safer than he was though as the eagle is equally keen to devour him. Tom wants his snack back though and while he and the eagle are fighting Jerry escapes. After a while Tom comes up with a cunning plan; he disguises himself as a female bird! This plan works far to well though; the eagle is so enamoured of Tom that he forgets about eating Jerry and the now free Jerry does all he can to unite the eagle and Tom.This was a fairly entertaining short; the eagle made a welcome addition to the cast; seeing him fight with Tom made a welcome change from seeing Tom and Jerry fighting with each other. The idea of having one character fall in love with another the moment they don a vaguely feminine disguise isn't exactly new but it provided some decent laughs and it was nice that the joke ran for most of the cartoon rather than being a brief gag that only lasted a few seconds; the fact that his disguise was rather poor only served to make the joke funnier. I was left wondering one thing at the end though... where did the eggs that Tom was sitting on at the end come from?!

ccthemovieman-1 Foiled by a falcon? Well, it's some kind of bird, anyway. Tom is a half-second away from having a Jerry-sandwich, his jaws ready to clamp down on his mouse-burger when suddenly a big bird swoops down and takes the sandwich away. He, too, wants to eat Jerry. Both Tom and the big bird have bibs on and like Jerry with a little salt!The two then fight over the sandwich, going through and inside tree stumps and limbs, around houses and just the neighborhood in general. Jerry, a confident mouse apparently, isn't fazed. Even when the bird adds mustard to him, Jerry takes the spreader and scratches himself gleefully with it! However cocky he appears, however, he always seems to disappear at the right moment.This was another solid Tom and Jerry cartoon with Jerry evoking more laughs than normal. Tom is pretty funny when he dons his female disguise and starts flirting with the birdie to distract his attention. The eyelash sight gag was very clever. Also in here is the standard eyeball-popping out of head scenes. I wonder how many times that was done in cartoons? It's always effective, despite the gag being used thousands of times. Here, the big bird's eyes pop out so far, they land on his beak like old granny glasses.

Shawn Watson Tom has caught Jerry and is about to make a sandwich out of him when a buzzard swoops down out of the sky and snatches the sandwich from his hands, just as he is about to take a bite. Not taking kindly to such acts of heinous theft, Tom goes after his sandwich, but the buzzard isn't going to give it up so easily.Cue many gags and schemes in which Tom tries to get Jerry back. Not to rescue him of course. Tom finds that the best scheme is to dress up as a weird-looking female buzzard. Of course the bird falls in love at first sight and makes it harder for Tom to escape than he ever imagined.Not the best T&J cartoon but loads of funny visual gags.

movieman_kev Tom the cat has to contend with a buzzard for the right to eat Jerry the mouse at first, then the vulture falls in love with him for some reason. Whenever a third character is in a Tom and Jerry short it can be hit or miss with me. Spike the dog is good, The black maid is good, the duckling is good sometimes. But this one, co-starring a love-stricken vulture as Tom's main foil is not one of the lesser Tom and Jerry shorts. While there are some laughs to be had, it just didn't seem to have that special something to make it one of the keepers. This cartoon can be found on disc one of the Spotlight collection DVD of "Tom & Jerry" My Grade: C