Pictures of a redtail eating a seagull.

[nanguz]

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!

[Donna]

great pics...but poor gull.

[nanguz]

yeah really. I'm sure that the poor thing was alive for a while as the hawk was eating.

[valhalla]

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???

[Paul Hamilton]

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

[valhalla]

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

Hmmm.....
There were a few other bumper stickers along that line of thinking, too....

[Joyce]

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

[nanguz]

It's got to be the same one. she is really a big, fat redtail

[Judi]

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!

 

[dale]

  Is this National Eat a Gull Week or something?

broasted, please.

[MAK]

He's big and fat from dining on seagulls!