[Mnbird] Red-tailed Hawk and Ducklings
rvjesse at aol.com
rvjesse at aol.com
Sat May 8 18:53:36 CDT 2021
Today while golfing in Olmsted county a mother mallard was escorting across the golf course around six ducklings to a new pond. A Red-tailed hawk saw this and made a pass with the mother duck raising up to defend. The hawk went to a tree and then came back and picked off one of the ducklings. The mother and the rest of the clan kept going. The Red-tail consumed the catch near the kill spot and then went after more but I think it was to late as the ducks were going under a fence into the pond.
While tough to watch what struck me was the Red-tail could have caught and taken them all with a few passes and ate later. Instead the hawk did it as I described, consuming the first kill first.
Robert Jessen
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