January Nature Notes

January Nature Notes · 01 January 1997

About a year ago a neighbour told me that he had seen what he described as a large falcon feeding on the remains of a turkey carcass he had left out for the birds. None of our resident or visiting birds of prey eat carrion and the identity of the large falcon remained a mystery. Over the following few months, however, I found in my garden the remains of two birds which appeared to have been killed by a sparrow hawk. One set of remains consisted of a headless collared dove and the other the head...