MiddleRiver
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We live in hilly wooded area, adjacent to river and with a year-round stream right out our kitchen window and with agricultural fields not too far. Consequently animal life is, in general, quite abundant.
In the past two weeks we have seen Coopers Hawks twice - the first in our creek eating a squirrel and yesterday afternoon on hillside above us feasting on what later in the evening was confirmed to be a squirrel. The first flew off with carcass remains and yesterdays spent close to an hour feeding on the ground. Later, near dark, I searched for what we believed to be it's location and found some rocks and ground splattered with fresh poo, and very few other remains other than scarce bits of hair and part of a cranium and two jaw bones. I was amazed at how clean the bones were and how thorough the hawk was!
Sadly, I do not have ability to take good tele photos (yes, tempted to invest in something), but here at least is what I found :-}
In the past two weeks we have seen Coopers Hawks twice - the first in our creek eating a squirrel and yesterday afternoon on hillside above us feasting on what later in the evening was confirmed to be a squirrel. The first flew off with carcass remains and yesterdays spent close to an hour feeding on the ground. Later, near dark, I searched for what we believed to be it's location and found some rocks and ground splattered with fresh poo, and very few other remains other than scarce bits of hair and part of a cranium and two jaw bones. I was amazed at how clean the bones were and how thorough the hawk was!
Sadly, I do not have ability to take good tele photos (yes, tempted to invest in something), but here at least is what I found :-}
