Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Raptor prey items
Date: Feb 1 11:28:47 2010
From: Jim Greaves - lbviman at blackfoot.net


Along the Santa Clara River in Ventura Co CA, I photographed a
White-tailed kite with a mammal clutched in its talons as it perched
on a distant tree; the hind legs were clearly identifiable as the
long ones of a rabbit - I suppose the size/weight of the rabbit could
be extrapolated and compared to a typical kite. Up to that point I
was under misapprehension that W-t kites only took voles! - Jim Greaves, MT

>[Tweeters] One more raptor carrying prey story
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>A few years back while doing a biological baseline survey for Paradise
>Valley Conservation Area (Snohomish Counties newest park and a nice one)
>several of us watched as a Red-tail carried a still alive aplodontia. The
>mammals legs were still actively moving as the hawk carried it.
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>Rob Sandelin