Dean writes:
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>A few of my students saw an accipiter (sharpie?) killing a pigeon on the
>school grounds. How common is this? Other sightings of this? First I have
>heard of this occurring.

Sharpies visit my backyard in Seattle Fall & Spring and seem to take more
pigeons than anything else judging by feather piles and observing them eating
prey. The finches and Chickadees seem to be able to elude them in the tangles
of tree branches, shrubs, etc.

-------Herb Curl
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