Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rcb33483 From: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (R C. Buchmann) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Suburban Raptors Message-ID: <1989Nov30.030517.13541@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 30 Nov 89 03:05:17 GMT References: <1989Nov29.032434.9233@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <2161@heavens-gate.lucid.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kehaar) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 26 In article <2161@heavens-gate.lucid.com> pab@lucid.com (Peter Benson) writes: >The redtail had been in a tree and I disturbed it. It dropped the remains >on the truck as it flew off. As I remember I was very sure it was a sharpy >after looking carefully at the feathers and studying the books that I had. >Around the same time I disturbed another hawk (probably redtail) while >eating a snake and it dropped it in front of my car. Things were feeling >very ominous at that time. It could have been a coyote or a great horned >owl that got the cat, but that incident convinced me that it could easily >have been a redtail. This was in a very remote section of canyon country >in southern Utah. > Oops. My mistake. This particular redtail, as I suggested earlier, probably found himself a sick and/or injured sharp-shin that was unable to defend itself (and a sharp-shin must be pretty far gone to be unable to defend itself!), and made a meal of it. Hawks, when they haven't eaten for a while, ain't picky. However, if your cat got lost in a place like you described, death by redtail is only one of several possible deaths. And as I said, birds live to break human rules... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R. Cody Buchmann ^.^ "Kehaar" email: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu "Now I fly for you..." - Watership Down ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com