[obol] Backyard Hawk?

[DAVID IRONS]

Dan et al.,

Merlins can and do take pigeons, hence their former name "Pigeon Hawk".  A 
few years ago I found a Merlin sitting on top of the recently killed Rock 
Pigeon on the Jefferson Middle School athletic field in s. Eugene.  As I 
approached the bird it took off carrying the dead pigeon several hundred 
yards before dropped it in the middle of Polk St.

Dave Irons


>From: "Anne & Dan Heyerly" <tanager at nu-world.com>
>To: "OBOL" <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>Subject: [obol] Backyard Hawk?
>Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:17:53 -0800
>
>I my posting yesterday I alluded to possibly a Sh-shinned or Cooper's 
>taking a couple of Rock Pigeons in our back yard. Anne reminded me that a 
>Merlin had strafed the back yard at least once just prior to our finding 
>the feather piles. I know Merlins are fearless and unaware of size 
>differences between themselves and possible prey, but could one possibly 
>succeed with a Rock Pigeon . . . . . twice? Come to think of it, I doubt if 
>a Sh-Sh could manage it, but definitely a Coop. could.
>Dan Heyerly


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