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posted 20 March 2022 02:52
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!
 
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posted 24 March 2022 23:24Hide Post
Hawks would be welcome to eat a few ground squirrels from our back yard...


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posted 01 April 2024 06:53Hide Post
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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.
 
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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
 
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posted 06 June 2024 22:29Hide Post
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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!


Sounds like a Goshawk.


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posted 02 July 2024 04:55Hide Post
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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.


Ants do the cleanup here...


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