They eat bugs, snakes, toads, frogs, and worms in addition to small mammals and birds, so it might be difficult to tell what the hawk may have been after.

> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:43:09 -0400> From: > Subject: [MDOSPREY] interesting R-s hawk behavior> To: > > A non-birder friend saw a hawk (apparently Red-shouldered from his > description) digging in the ground. He never saw it catch anything. > Any ideas about what it was going after?> > Bob Hartman> Colesville/Silver Spring> 
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