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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/07a4de0a-2298-4629-9afc-edb943d07625o%40googlegroups.com.
