[NatureNS] Northern Goshawk and Prey

Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:45:01 -0400
From: "Margaret E.Millard" <mmillard@eastlink.ca>
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I have seen a sharp-shinned do that, and the shrike. It does that making its 
little meowling sound. Must be scary to the littler ones......would be to 
me. I wonder if the Goshawk is the same one we saw on the grapevine a short 
while ago. How far do they range.?

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From: "James Hirtle" <jrhbirder@hotmail.com>
To: "Naturens Naturens" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:19 AM
Subject: [NatureNS] Northern Goshawk and Prey



Hi all:

I had an interesting observation related to me.  Apparently a gentleman was 
in his tree stand bow hunting.  While there he noted two squirrels busily 
dropping cones from the top of a very thick evergreen tree.  Every now and 
then these two red squirrels would chase one another around and around the 
tree.  After a time the hunter noted a northern goshawk.  This bird 
proceeded to land on the lower branch of the thick evergree tree and hopped 
from branch to branch up into the tree.  After a time a big commotion 
occurred.  All of a sudden the northern goshawk appeared again on the bottom 
branches of the tree with one of the squirrels in talon.  The goshawk had 
descended the tree branch by branch after apprehending the prey.  This 
method of hunting for a hawk is definitely new for me and I've never heard 
of such an occurrence before.  From a scientific perspective it would be 
nice to know if any studies have shown other goshawks using this method of 
hunting to obtain prey from hard to get at locations.



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