Title: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: nanguz on 08-Dec-09, 09:26:36 AM
I was at Medley center and I saw the silohuette of a very large bird eating something on the ground. I drove closer and I saw it was a big redtail hawk. I drove back to work, got my camera and went back. the hawk flew into a tree and finally I got to see what she was eating. It was a seagull. pretty amazing!
Title: Re: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: Donna on 08-Dec-09, 09:42:00 AM
great pics...but poor gull.
Title: Re: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: nanguz on 08-Dec-09, 10:19:35 AM
yeah really. I'm sure that the poor thing was alive for a while as the hawk was eating.
Title: Re: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: valhalla on 08-Dec-09, 11:08:02 AM
I was at Medley center and I saw the silohuette of a very large bird eating something on the ground. I drove closer and I saw it was a big redtail hawk. I drove back to work, got my camera and went back. the hawk flew into a tree and finally I got to see what she was eating. It was a seagull. pretty amazing!
I wonder if this was Dana's RTH and Gull???
Title: Re: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: Paul Hamilton on 08-Dec-09, 11:11:59 AM
Another redtail eating a gull! Is this National Eat a Gull Week or something? I hadn't known that redtails were able to catch gulls or even interested in doing such. Back when I was in grad school, I delighted in borrowing my roommate's car with its "Eat More Possum" bumper sticker. Great for dates and faculty-student cocktail parties. It prompted much conversation, but changed nobody's eating habits. I guess redtails are unlike people. Anyhow, great pictures.
Paul
Paul
Title: Re: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: valhalla on 08-Dec-09, 12:29:05 PM
Another redtail eating a gull! Is this National Eat a Gull Week or something? I hadn't known that redtails were able to catch gulls or even interested in doing such. Back when I was in grad school, I delighted in borrowing my roommate's car with its "Eat More Possum" bumper sticker. Great for dates and faculty-student cocktail parties. It prompted much conversation, but changed nobody's eating habits. I guess redtails are unlike people. Anyhow, great pictures.
Paul
Paul
Hmmm.....
There were a few other bumper stickers along that line of thinking, too....
Title: Re: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: Joyce on 08-Dec-09, 02:40:47 PM
I was at Medley center and I saw the silohuette of a very large bird eating something on the ground. I drove closer and I saw it was a big redtail hawk. I drove back to work, got my camera and went back. the hawk flew into a tree and finally I got to see what she was eating. It was a seagull. pretty amazing!
I wonder if this was Dana's RTH and Gull???
This looks just like the reddish headed one we saw on Sunday in the tree nest to the old K-Mart building (see Carol P's pics). I have seen two RTHs together on the Ridge Rd communication tower, flying over Medley Center, on lights over the expressway nearby, and flying around St. Anns. I saw the male (darker head) hunt for small prey on the ground. This may be the female who likes a "gullicious" meal.
~Joyce
Title: Re: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: nanguz on 09-Dec-09, 12:27:38 PM
It's got to be the same one. she is really a big, fat redtail
Title: Re: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: Judi on 09-Dec-09, 10:49:21 PM
I was at Medley center and I saw the silohuette of a very large bird eating something on the ground. I drove closer and I saw it was a big redtail hawk. I drove back to work, got my camera and went back. the hawk flew into a tree and finally I got to see what she was eating. It was a seagull. pretty amazing!
I wonder if this was Dana's RTH and Gull???
I was just wondering the same thing...sure looks like it!
:wave:
Title: Re: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: dale on 10-Dec-09, 02:16:50 AM
Is this National Eat a Gull Week or something?
broasted, please.
Title: Re: Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.
Post by: MAK on 10-Dec-09, 08:04:30 AM
He's big and fat from dining on seagulls! :laugh: