The hawk was still munching away at 4 PM Sunday and very easily found by the dam and a little bit downstream..
Bill Kosar Colorado Springs On Sunday, 13 September 2020 16:26:25 UTC-6, Dave Leatherman wrote: > > An awesome , quick response from Kevin Ash (finder of the Common > Black-Hawk) and Cinnamon Bergeron has resulted in photos from Cinnamon > showing the bird with a crayfish on the dam, and reference to photos in the > eBird checklists of Alan Ketcham and Diane Roberts showing the hawk with > crayfish. These are all great verification that this somewhat lost young > bird is acting as normally as a Common Black-Hawk in Colorado can by > finding a good source of "mud bugs" (as crayfish are called in the South). > In Ohio we called them crawdads. Alan's photo shows the bird on the dam > with two big claws lying next to it on the concrete. Obviously, this big > hawk does what many others birds, most notably gulls, do when preparing to > consume crayfish - they remove the claws. Many waterbirds like Pied-billed > Grebes and Hooded Mergansers skin the cat a little differently, probably > because of the difficulty inherent with being in water and possessing feet > adapted for pushing water, not delicately manipulating food: they just > orient the morsel tailfirst and then swallow it, claws and all. > > Thanks to the folks above for their finding, photographing and sharing > efforts. > > Dave Leatherman > Fort Collins > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/07a4de0a-2298-4629-9afc-edb943d07625o%40googlegroups.com.
