A telephone wire can also take a COHA. Maybe that's what happened and some lucky predator came along and took advantage. Did you find any feathers nearby?
One fall morning years back I found a ruffed grouse just outside of Hibbing MN that had just been beheaded by a car antenna. It was grouse season so I took it home for supper... -- Sincerely, Jim Ryan Saint Paul's Westside ---- "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community" - Aldo Leopold “There has been a tremendous renaissance in nature study in recent years; it has been called a form of escapism, and perhaps it is in a way, but not an escape from reality; but rather, a return to reality; a flight from unreal things.” - Roger Tory Peterson ---- On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:54 PM, peter schmidt < peterschmidtphotogra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Recently a Cooper's hawk has been dining on birds at my feeders, yesterday > I > found just the head of the Cooper's hawk, no plucked feather pile. What is > the > most likely predator that can take a Cooper's hawk, Barred Owl? fox? I live > in > Mpls near the Mississippi. > > Peter Schmidt Photography > 612-501-7458 > > > > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
