For some time, I have observed some of the squirrels coming to my feeders were wounded. With large pieces of their hides torn away. This morning I was working on a mower on my driveway, and I was able to observe what was happening. Two hawks were circling the nut trees around the house screeching and carrying on. When one spied a squirrel, it would fly into the tree and perch motionless and silent. The other hawk would continue to circle the tree screeching. When a squirrel would spook, the hawk in the tree would go after it. Smart, cooperative creatures those hawks are!

Hawks would be welcome to eat a few ground squirrels from our back yard...

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Originally posted by TomP:
Hawks would be welcome to eat a few ground squirrels from our back yard...

Id rather hunt them myself. Hawks make a mess with the carcass.

our hawks hammer the eurasian doves here. we find their picked and desiccated bodies all the time. have never seen them get a squirrel though - probaboy because there are doves a plenty