<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi all,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Cooper's Hawks are well-known bird-hunters but our two experiences at Butyl Creek of Cooper's Hawk predation involved Rats.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The first was a while ago and I got photos of a presumed female bird eating a large Rat in our back yard that I posted on Nextdoor in an attack on users of Rat Poison.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The second was a minute ago, a probably male bird that we hadn't seen before first hiding in ambush 20 ft from the creek and sailing in in a fast dive, we at first couldn't see the victim but Delia ascertained it was a young Norway Rat. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Too bad, it was a handsome bird, but it was too quick for me to get a shot which would have helped in the intermittent but neverending Nextdoor battles to combat the counter-productive rat-control-sabotaging idiocy that is Rat Poison.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Cheers,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ed</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>