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Hi Jim,
I'm not 100 per cent sure it was a rat, what I saw from my window was a smallish, pigeon sized hawk with a slate gray back on something that looked like it had a long skinny tail & when it flew away quickly (it saw my movement in the window) the 'dinner' had a long dark skinny appendage at the back. It just looked like a rats tail. I did speak to Fulton Lavender and he said they have been known to kill squirrels, so I guess maybe it could have been a rat.
My best,
Gayle MacLean
Dartmouth
--- On Tue, 2/9/10, James W. Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> From: James W. Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
> Subject: [NatureNS] sharpie killing rat?? -- was Dartmouth Birds
> To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Received: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 2:17 PM
>
> Has anyone else on our list heard of a sharp-shinned hawk
> preying on a mammal of any kind, much less a rat??
> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
>
> Begin forwarded message:
> From: Gayle MacLean <duartess2003@yahoo.ca>Date: February 8, 2010 2:22:46 PM ASTTo: naturens@chebucto.ns.caSubject: [NatureNS] Dartmouth
> BirdsReply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Brown
> Creeper seen through my binnoculars going up the side of a
> tree in the green belt in back of our backyard. Hadn't
> seen one in years! but then again they're really not
> that easy to spot.Haven't
> seen the Orange-crowned Warbler at all today yet. It's
> had a so-so reaction to the meal worms, so far, or it may
> have been the way they were presented. Still loves the plum
> pudding though! May be 'laying low' today as a
> Sharp-shinned Hawk has been successful now 3 days in a row
> at killing starlings in my backyard, mind you, today's
> kill looked more like a rat; it appeared to have a long
> skinny tail! I didn't think Sharp-shinned Hawks went
> after rodents.
> Gayle
> MacLeanDartmouth
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