Hello,
I hope the Pileated surveived to.You story remind me on one similar here in
Fircrest. It was in 1986 i this starting in birding and waited on onother
birder to pick me up. Standing in the front yard ready to go, when i saw a
Sharp-shinned Hawk grabed a Band-tailed Pigeon right under my eye. At that
time i was so upset that i try to scare the Hawk up to drop the Pigeon
.. He was flying over the street dropping the Pigeon several times, but i
think the Hawk injured the Pigeon around the neck he could not escape anf
finaly the Hawk flew away with the his heavy prey. He was flying verry low
to carry it away. When a hawk get a bird now i have a different attitude.
Only the strong can survive and the Hawk have to eat to.It was a nice story
to write up.

Ruth Sullivan

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> From: Pam Stanton-Wyman <pstanton at snovalley.com>
> To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Pileated 1, Red Tail 0
> Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 3:28 PM
>
> Walking my son out to the bus stop yesterday morning, we heard loud,
> panicked, high-pitched screaming coming from the top of a fir tree across
> the street. Crows & Stellars jays where looking on with concern. Finally,
a
> Red tail hawk flew out of the tree, clutching a very indignant, squalling
> Pileated woodpecker. The hawk couldn't get any lift holding the
woodpecker
> and descended at a rapid rate, finally dropping the woodpecker on the
road.
> The Pileated bounced a couple of times and then made a bouncing, hasty
> retreat to the roadside bushes. The hawk meantime, was perched overhead,
> trying to locate his breakfast. The jays had had enough and started
mobbing
> the hawk, who flew off. We could not locate the Pileated, but hope he
> survived.
>
> Pam Stanton-Wyman
> Carnation, WA
> mailto:pstanton at snovalley.com
>