Hello, I have a small stream running through the back of my property on the Satsop River and have seen a Red Tailed Hawks and a few Bald Eagles in there feeding on salmon carcasses. Once their was a Steelhead carcass on a stump next to my bridge that something fed on. This is a tiny seasonal stream under a canopy but it still dosen't seem to bother them, Great Blue Hurons also feed in it.

Bryan Owens
Tacoma Wa.
obryan214 at yahoo.com

Deb Hagerty <42psalm01 at foxinternet.com> wrote:
FLAVOR00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000 4.0 ; No stats but I have had to stop my jeep, get out the stuck shovel and scoop up road kill, tossing it well to the side of the road because an immature Red Tail without any traffic savvy stood in the road to enjoy his brunch without fear of becoming road kill itself.

Deb of Ray & Deb Fame
Robe Valley in Washington
42psalm01 at foxinternet.com

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-------Original Message-------

From: Steve Ellis
Date: 01/31/06 09:32:04
To: Tweeters
Subject: [Tweeters] Re Red-tailed Hawks & Carrion


I once saw an immature Red-tailed Hawk feeding on a road killed deer near
Colville Washington. Twice I've seen adult RTHA on salmon carcasses but then
again it might be easier to list birds that don't take advantage of salmon
protein when it is abundant ( We found Golden-crowned Kinglets feeding on a
20-25lb Chinook on a gravel bar on the Skagit River). Perhaps someone else
can supply statistics concerning the percentage of carrion in hawk diets. I
would guess it's fairly low.
Steve Ellis
sellis at coup.wednet.edu
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