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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John B (not the sloop)" data-source="post: 1452626" data-attributes="member: 68457">Take a good look at the base of the feathers. If they have been plucked from the prey item and so appear whole the perp is likely to be raptor which, as many have already said, is fully protected by law and "but it's costing me money", won't cut any ice if you choose to "disappear" one.:CFeathers that look as if they've been cut cleanly across the base as if with a knife would suggest a fox.Ragged edges at the end of an apparently bitten off feather spine would indicate a mustelid's work.</blockquote>