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Bill Kosar Colorado Springs El Paso County On Sunday, 13 September 2020 17:23:08 UTC-6, kickback wrote: > > 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/89a24b60-2240-47df-93b0-53c55539a163o%40googlegroups.com.
