A juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk was successful in nabbing an Eurasian Collared-Dove in my yard yesterday. He was in hot pursuit chasing the bird straight toward the glass door I was standing at. The dove hit the door hard and fell to the patio where the sharpie pounced. It was touch and go for about 5 minutes as the dove was bigger than the sharpie and kept trying to escape. Long story short, it didn't and the hawk had a big meal. It left the dove on a horizontal branch in my russian olive trees. I checked the carcass and their was half the breast left on the dove. I dropped it over the fence.
Well this morning the sharpie was back - looking for the rest of his meal! It searched for about 10 minutes even sitting on the fence so it would have seen the bird had it still been there. I thought that this was very interesting. It checked the branch where it left the dove several times, appearing certain of where it had left it!. I wish I had not moved it. Connie. Connie Kogler Twitter @lefthanddbirder Loveland, CO. BirdsOTheMorning.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
