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From: teexmmo@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Hawk in the city?
Message-ID: <1989Dec13.151310.27410@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Dec 89 15:13:10 GMT
References: <1870.2583873c@mccall.uucp>
Reply-To: teexmmo@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore)
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In article <1870.2583873c@mccall.uucp> scott@mccall.uucp writes:
>This weekend I saw a hawk eating a wren.  I live in the city(~30,000).  I
>rarely seen a hawk in town much less eating its prey.  I live in an apt.
>building, and this hawk was on my neighbors patio.  Has anyone seen this
>before?

If you could see that it was eating a wren, you probably got a good view.
Did you note any identifying marks colours etc?
How did it fly when it departed? Did it make any noises?

Here in sunny London (~10^^6) a falcon called the kestrel is fairly common,
(I saw one within the last week), and it feeds on small birds and rodents.
Like some other city birds (crows, pigeons) it is also often found on cliffs
and hills.
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