RED TAILED HAWK - 2
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A Red Tailed Hawk catches a squirrel in our backyard.
On a snowy December morn, a Red-Tailed Hawk finds a squirrel. Linda determined that it was an immature female. She was hungry, to say the least, and not even the photographer could scare her from her recent kill.

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Mmmmm....good!The Red-tail Hawk enjoys its squirrel dinner.
Nature says, "Without death, there could be no life." Did you know that squirrel skin is very tough? The Hawk rips through it, then literally turns the carcass inside out to eat. Perhaps that is more than you wanted, or needed, to know.


Photo of the Hawk with another squirrel watching it from about five feet away
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."

 

Time to go. The Hawk takes off with the squirrel carcass.
As this photo shows, the photographer's reflexes were not fast enough to catch the Hawk's leap into the air. She was much too fast and she flew to a tree across the street to finish her meal.

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