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Originally Posted by Susan G
I actually witnessed one swoop out of the sky yesterday morning, grab a dove in flight and wrestle it to the ground. Feathers were falling from above like snow. Sad, but it is survival of the fittest (and fastest) I guess.
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I believe you are right when you say survival of the fastest. We had a hawk on our deck in MI frequently. He wasn't even afraid of the dog. My husband had a bird feeder on the deck that attracted the hawk, but the birds would scatter into the tree next to the deck (thick with many intertwined branches), and he could not get to them. But every year we would find what looked like dove feathers in another part of the yard by a pine tree where the doves nested.
One year the condo association decided to remove certain trees that the builder had put too close to the house, and ours was one of them. No more place for the birds to scatter to, and we removed the bird feeder.