Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Mid-Atlantic Birdwatching - Page 2, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
I glanced out today and saww a hawk chowing/ripping apart a bird of some kind--probably a Dove--as they are slow to take flight.
I must have stood by my window for 20 minutes--binoculars in hand. i have a hard timw with my small "Opera glasses" as I wear tri-focal, progressive lenses. I took them off and I could see the hawk a bit better.
At first--it was pulling off all the feathers.....Hmmm...Might have been a Blackbird of some kind--as they were dark feathers.....
Then he was ripping off bits of flesh an chowing down. For about 15 minutes!
Then he flew up in the tree with whatever was left of the skeleton--and chowed some more.

I tried taking pictures--but I have a cheapie camera--and was taking them through my dirty window at full zoom.
Here it is. Best I could get....What kind of a hawk is it?

Gita