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01/23/97

Tweets --

A friend of mine keeps about a dozen domestic doves in
an outdoor cage in her large fenced yard in Tacoma. She
feeds her pets with lots of grain, some of which is consumed
by rodents. These rodents are getting thicker, and so she
has very carefully hidden D-con in the area, so that at
least some of these rodents will find the D-con and head
out of the photograph (or wherever). From time to time, a
Cooper's Hawk stops by and catches one or more of the
rodents, some of which have undoubtedly consumed some
of the D-con.

The question: does this D-con contamination have a
very large / significant chance of poisoning the hawk?
Is this like the grasshoppers / Swainson's Hawk tale
in South America, or is this a safer situation (for the hawk)?

Alan Richards / alanr at orednet.org / Naselle WA 98638 USA
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