I'd like some help with feather identification. While on Whidbey Island
this weekend, I found in a field the remnant feathers of an avian battle.
I'm not sure if the feathers were from two species of birds in battle, or
were from one bird struggling with another animal (perhaps a coyote that I
saw in the same field). I'm suspect at least one of the feather types was
from a red-tail hawk.There were about six individual feathers plus a clump
of three or four bound together by skin tissue. I've posted a photo at:
http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/featherwar.jpg
and would be very interested to know what folks think: was this one or two
birds, and what species?

Many thanks.

Marc Hoffman
Kirkland, WA
tweeters at dartfrogmedia.com