My son has about 7 or 8 very tall fir trees clustered in his back yard in the North End of Tacoma and this winter he showed me a spot at the base of on of the trunks where there were at least 6 Robin sized bird skulls and several bones. I have not been able to see a nest in that tree but it doesn't mean there isn't one. There are several bird feeders in his back yard and my thoughts were that he has some avian guest one notch up the food chain to those who visit his feeders. It seemed to be too many skulls to be chicks from a nest.

Jim Brewster
Tacoma
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<<This week at Bob Heirman park my students found a log with dozens of skulls
and bones on it. Since a Northern Harrier is often seen here I assume these
are regurgitated pellets from that bird. The log is in a large area of
grass. I have not seen so many in one place before. Is this common for
Harriers to have, as one 8th grader so eloquently put it, a puke perch?>>