Raptor Wednesday

Gory edition.

A young Red-tail with a rat.

Long-memoried readers may recall last November, when another young Red-tail ate a pigeon on this same roof. That attracted crows, who came back for the remains left there. Unlike, say wings, all of rat is edible. This time, the hawk carried away the aft section of the corpse. The bird’s crop was quite stuffed; it was probably going to stashing the remains for later.