Folks,
I recently reported about adult Sharp-shinned hawk chowing-down at a
kidney fat-suet feeder at my parents' home in Marysville, WA. Over this
past weekend, while visiting friends in the central Oregon area west of
Salem, on the east side of the coast mountain range, an adult Sharpie was
at their feeders.

As before, this hawk was not chasing small birds, but eating from a feeder
that had been freshly filled with sunflower seed. What?! The best we
could figure, after checking the feeder when the hawk left, was that the
larvae/weevils in the sunflower seed were the 'prey' items. An easy meal,
indeed.

Cheers, me2
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Maureen Ellis, PhD, Research Scientist
Woods Lab, Toxicology Group at Roos 1, Box 354695
Lab/Office phone: 206-685-1938 Email: mj2ephd at u.washington.edu
DEOHS, SPHCM, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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