[Tweeters] Skagit Nothern Goshawk

[Anthony G.]

Greetings all..found again at 2:09pm near Polson and Moore roads. Up high mixed with a large flock of eurostarlings just above dike. Good frontal views this time, seen with binos. took off before i could nab any images and flew north across the river. this was near 16068 moore road. loads of vehicle traffic
Anthony G.
Camano Island

On December 28, 2020 10:23:23 AM PST, stan Kostka lynn Schmidt <lynnandstan at earthlink.net> wrote:

>Hi Gary, 

>

>The only times I have ever been able to say with absolute certainty

>that I was looking at a Gos, it was either eating or attempting to kill

>a chicken.

>

>Just wanted to mention for the benefit of readers that I do not think a

>Gos could eat a chicken every day. (unless the chickens are extremely

>small). However,  it may very well kill a chicken every day if someone

>or something removes the kill each day. 

>

>Years ago I found a dead and partially eaten chicken in the yard,  so I

>buried it.  The next day I found another dead chicken,  so I left it

>where it was.  Next day a Gos came in and fed on it.    The Gos

>returned to it’s kill every morning for five days,  until there was

>nothing left of the chicken except bone and feather. 

>

>Long ago, in a world far far away, (another lifetime), my old neighbor

>Ernie was complaining that a hawk had killed one of his chickens. It

>was a Gos, and Ernie was threatening to shoot it.  I pleaded with him

>not to.  I knew the bird was in migration and would not stay around

>long,  so I told Ernie if he did not harm the Gos,  I would pay him

>fifty dollars for each chicken he lost.  In the end the Gos only killed

>one more chicken,  I paid Ernie his fifty dollars,  and he got to watch

>a Gos eat that chicken over several days.  You know, I think in the end

>old Ernie gained a new appreciation for wild birds, although he would

>never ever admit it. 

>

>Stan Kostka

>lynnandstan at earthlink.net

>Arlington 

>  

>

>

>Subject: a genuine Skagit Nothern Goshawk!

>Date: Sun Dec 27 2020 1:23 am

>From: garybletsch AT yahoo.com

>

>...I suspect that this Goshawk will stick around, the way one was said

>to have done on Samish Flats years ago, eating a chicken a day until

>there were no more left--if I remember the story right...

>

>

>

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