Greetings all..found again at 2:09pm near Polson and Moore roads. Up high mixed with a large flock of eurostarlings just above dike. Good frontal views this time, seen with binos. took off before i could nab any images and flew north across the river. this was near 16068 moore road. loads of vehicle traffic
Anthony G.
Camano Island
On December 28, 2020 10:23:23 AM PST, stan Kostka lynn Schmidt <
lynnandstan at earthlink.net> wrote:
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Hi Gary,
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The only times I have ever been able to say with absolute certainty
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that I was looking at a Gos, it was either eating or attempting to kill
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a chicken.
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Just wanted to mention for the benefit of readers that I do not think a
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Gos could eat a chicken every day. (unless the chickens are extremely
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small). However, it may very well kill a chicken every day if someone
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or something removes the kill each day.
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Years ago I found a dead and partially eaten chicken in the yard, so I
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buried it. The next day I found another dead chicken, so I left it
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where it was. Next day a Gos came in and fed on it. The Gos
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returned to it's kill every morning for five days, until there was
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nothing left of the chicken except bone and feather.
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Long ago, in a world far far away, (another lifetime), my old neighbor
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Ernie was complaining that a hawk had killed one of his chickens. It
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was a Gos, and Ernie was threatening to shoot it. I pleaded with him
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not to. I knew the bird was in migration and would not stay around
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long, so I told Ernie if he did not harm the Gos, I would pay him
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fifty dollars for each chicken he lost. In the end the Gos only killed
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one more chicken, I paid Ernie his fifty dollars, and he got to watch
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a Gos eat that chicken over several days. You know, I think in the end
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old Ernie gained a new appreciation for wild birds, although he would
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never ever admit it.
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Stan Kostka
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lynnandstan at earthlink.net
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Arlington
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Subject: a genuine Skagit Nothern Goshawk!
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Date: Sun Dec 27 2020 1:23 am
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From: garybletsch AT yahoo.com
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...I suspect that this Goshawk will stick around, the way one was said
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to have done on Samish Flats years ago, eating a chicken a day until
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there were no more left--if I remember the story right...
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