"OUR" RED TAILED HAWK

This was around the 5th of December, and the snow didn't last very long.
We had to wait until January 13 to see snow on the ground again.

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This was take from inside the house, shooting from the kitchen,
through our dirty garden room window, but it's still not too bad.

The squirrel in the foreground can be happy that the Hawk had already eaten well. As it was, the Hawk had a look on its face like, "I'll be back." But so far, we haven't seen her although neighbors have seen her carrying squirrel carcasses.

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I thought I would try to push the camera shutter the instant she was ready to leave. As my reflexes show, she was much too fast. She flew to a tree across the street to finish her meal. Linda told me that squirrel skins are very tough so the Hawk literally turns it inside out to eat it. Maybe that's more than you wanted, or needed, to know.

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