It’s a Hawk-Eat-Hawk World

This amazing brief video, shot on a smart phone yesterday, shows an immature Red-tailed Hawk devouring a mature Sharp-shinned Hawk, in the backyard of CAS President Alex Brash’s house, in Riverside. Alex’s son, Ian, took the video.

Red-tailed Hawks of course prey mostly on small mammals; Sharpies are designed to catch songbirds on the wing. Red-tails weigh about three pounds; Sharpies weigh, at most, half a pound.