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Early Thanksgiving Dinner

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Karen Morley

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Karen Morley

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Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:01:13 -0800

As I type I am watching a juvenile Cooper's Hawk enjoying a Baltimore City rat 
for a late lunch or early dinner.  The bird swooped into my inner city yard and 
caught the rat as it skulked around the bottom of my feeders.  Because the bird 
can't lift the critter (City rats are big), it pulled the rat off into the 
bushes and is now enjoying it.  I often get young Coopers in this part of the 
City during the winter.  Oooops.........something spooked him and he's taken 
off, rat in tow (guess it wasn't too heavy after all), to finish the meal in the 
safety of a tree.  

Very cool.  

Karen 
 
 
 
Karen Morley
kdmorley at yahoo dot com