DuckMeRunnin
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Reged: 12/17/05
Posts: 2741
Loc: Missouri
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About an hour ago I was standing at the kitchen sink, looking out the window at a house finch on the feeder. In a flash, he was smoothed off there by Cooper's hawk.
It snatched it, landed on the ground while the finch twitched a bit, then flew up to a limb.
After the feather storm and the hawk had left, I went out to look under the limb. No skull, no rib cage, not even feet or a beak !
It was mighty cool to watch that happen. 
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 9186
Loc: Russellville, Mo
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That is cool. I've seen hawks grab stuff in the wild, but never that close start-to-finish like you described. 
At our old place, hawks would occasionally sit in the tree outside our bedroom window to hunt over Lindas bird feeders. We usually hit on the windows to scare them off though, so we never saw one feed there.
Several birds also rammed their faces into our front door. This Pileated was one of the suicides, and it was loud when it hit the glass. 
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sptsman
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Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 6198
Loc: Missouri
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Looks like a little pellet hole in that woodpecker's head... Suicide, you sure about that? 
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"Hunts are best measured by the endurance of the memories they produce..."
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 9186
Loc: Russellville, Mo
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Positive.  Just colors.
I had to dig a grave for it, because Linda was so upset about it croaking. She used to put out suet feeders just to keep those Pileateds coming back.
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