We have seen both Red-tails and Red-shoulders on the C&O canal with snakes.
They weren't taking them to a nest as far as I could tell.
Lucy Uncu
Falls Church
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Daniel,
 
A couple of summers ago (or perhaps last summer?) I twice saw a
Red-shouldered Hawk carrying a snake back to its nest here in Woodbine.
Probably the same individual bird, or one of the pair. They seem to favor
snakes as food for their young, at least here. Nothing so far this year
though...

Rick Sussman
Woodbine,MD



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Sent: Mon, Jun 4, 2012 2:14 pm
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Birds 2 - Reptiles 0


I let our staff herpetologist know that the birds were getting some payback
for 
ll nestlings and eggs swallowed up by her snakes this Spring. 
I have seen red-shouldered and red-tailed hawks all over DC, but this is the

nly area where i have seen them with snakes. A pair nests towards the
southern 
ip of Kingman Island, so it is likely it is the same bird or pair. Some may
be 
ore adept at snake hunting than others.  The hawks are immediately mobbed by

ed-winged blackbirds and eastern kingbirds, so i did not have a chance to 
ttempt an ID on the snake. 
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