The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135091   Message #3102753
Posted By: gnu
25-Feb-11 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Birdwatching 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2011
I was just washing dishes and a starling type bird (it's snowing) tried to pearch quite close to my backtard maple tree trunk. Lost it's footing and a sharp shinned hawk side-swiped it at a million miles and hour, rose, banked and dove and after the starling did a few 360's and tried to make it into the pines... bang! Right to ground, er, snow.

Got some on video but stopped after the hawk was done plucking. I will probably erase it.