I guess I will join in.

Along time ago while living up on the Issaquah plateau, we had a Kestrel that hunted the property.

A sparrow had got stuck in our grain room and had beat its head into the window trying to get out. I saved the sparrow and while it was reviving I placed it up on the lowest part of the roof to let it go.
A kestrel came down in a flash and snatched the bird from the ledge.

A few weeks later, I was going into the house for dinner when I noticed a robin landing under a small fir tree in the yard. At almost the same moment a Kestrel swooped out of the sky and knocked the robin to the ground, holding it till it stopped struggling. I stood there stunned as the robin was actually larger then the kestrel. I left the hawk to eat its meal in the shade of the tree.

Dawn Bailey
Eatonville, WA
dawnsdog at rainierconnect.com

"Life isn't a succession of urgent nows, but a listless trickle of why should I's?"
~ John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester