Sitting on my porch at around 8:15 this evening, I noticed a silhouetted accipiter (female sharp-shinned or male cooper’s?) atop the utility pole in the TCAT parking lot in Varna. It was pulling apart what I thought was a small bird, but when it tossed it off and flew away I found the fresh remains of a bat (mostly wings) at the base of the pole, plus the remains of at least two more bats that were slightly less fresh. Do they “hawk” the bats in flight?? What a remarkable feat that would be! Anyone ever witnessed it?
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