RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* January 18, 2021
* NYSY 01. 18. 21
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
January 11 to January 18, 2021
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covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma
Maybe, squirrels aren't as easy to kill as birds?
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:26 AM Terry Mingle wrote:
> We have Cooper’s Hawks as well - at my house, and at my sister Richanna’s
> house, and I’ve only ever seen them eat a squirrel once, and it was the
> young hawks (that just fledged) that
A lovely flock on Mount Pleasant this morning. Right by the road On the fields
approaching the Mineah intersection. They were in a calm and convivial state
(please excuse the anthropomorphism!), letting me get close enough —despite my
underpowered binocs & having my 95 lb dog in tow—to observe
Hmm. I need to get some Red-Tailed Hawks. ;-)
—Terry
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> On Jan 18, 2021 , at 11:16 AM, Tim Gallagher wrote:
>
> Hi Donna,
>
> Gray squirrels are actually a fairly common prey item for local Red-tailed
> Hawks. I even saw a red-tail try to catch
We have Cooper’s Hawks as well - at my house, and at my sister Richanna’s
house, and I’ve only ever seen them eat a squirrel once, and it was the young
hawks (that just fledged) that killed it.
I always wonder why they don’t eat squirrel more often. I wish they would. I
have about 10 fat
Thanks Tim.
I wondered about prey biting raptors’ feet/legs. -donna
Donna Scott
Lansing
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On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:17 AM, Donna Lee Scott
mailto:d...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Must be my fatties hide well when red tailed hawks perch above the yard!
Right now there are 10 SQs
Hi Donna,
Gray squirrels are actually a fairly common prey item for local Red-tailed
Hawks. I even saw a red-tail try to catch one in the field behind my house.
They can give a nasty bite to a hawk. I've trapped numerous red-tails over the
years that have scars on their feet from squirrel
Must be my fatties hide well when red tailed hawks perch above the yard!
Right now there are 10 SQs visible.
Donna Scott
Lansing
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On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Linda Ann Woodard
mailto:l...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Hi Donna,
A couple of weeks ago I watched a red-tail catch,
Hi Donna,
A couple of weeks ago I watched a red-tail catch, kill and eat a grey
squirrel in my yard. It pinned the squirrel and stayed motionless over it for
at least five minutes until the squirrel was dead. It took another 30 minutes
or so for the hawk to eat its fill. It left the remains
Hi Tim
Why don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray squirrels, of
which I have many bird-seed-fattened individuals in my big yard? Yard Has tall
trees & 2 fairly open expanses.
Coopers or Sharpies occasionally kill birds near feeders here.
A few years ago I watched a Bald
Hi Lea,
It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until
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