Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-11 Thread Geo Kloppel
That's right, on the web you can find videos of Red-tailed Hawks hunting at dusk as vast clouds of bats emerge from their roosting cave. Here's one such: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e22_1344450135 The presence of multiple remains under the pole in the TCAT parking lot suggests that this

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-11 Thread Tim Gallagher
...@cornell.edu From: bounce-117710864-10557...@list.cornell.edu bounce-117710864-10557...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 6:42 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats That's

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-11 Thread Kevin Loope
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats That's right, on the web you can find videos of Red-tailed Hawks hunting at dusk as vast clouds of bats emerge from their roosting cave. Here's one such: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e22_1344450135 The presence of multiple remains

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-11 Thread Lindsay Goodloe
From what I've read, the red-tailed hawk occurs in Central America but not in South America. When I was growing up in the 1950s, I was a big fan of Disney's True Life Adventure films, one of which was The Living Desert. Though it's been about 60 years since I've seen the film, I have a clear

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-11 Thread Mike Pitzrick
Howdy, Birds of North America says that Red-tailed Hawk has been reported as far south as Venezuela and Colombia. -Mike On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Lindsay Goodloe l...@cornell.edu wrote: From what I’ve read, the red-tailed hawk occurs in Central America but not in South

[cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-10 Thread Kevin Loope
Sitting on my porch at around 8:15 this evening, I noticed a silhouetted accipiter (female sharp-shinned or male cooper’s?) atop the utility pole in the TCAT parking lot in Varna. It was pulling apart what I thought was a small bird, but when it tossed it off and flew away I found the fresh

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-10 Thread David Diaz
I think one of the BBC specials shows red-tailed hawks catching bats. Big bats, in South America...I think. David Diaz Tburg, NY On Aug 10, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Kevin Loope kj...@cornell.edu wrote: Sitting on my porch at around 8:15 this evening, I noticed a silhouetted accipiter (female