So sitting in my living room having our morning coffee my wife notices a commotion in our backyard, visible through the big picture windows.

Turns out a hawk* has caught the rabbit that we think lives under the deck and who eats my wife's roses despite me occasionally successfully nailing himmer in the butt with my trusty Daisy pump action.

It's not a big hawk, though, and it is a pretty fat rabbit so there is a fair amount of flopping going on with the hawk tenaciously hanging onto hizzer prize. After about 20 minutes or so, the rabbit finally expires and the hawk drags it under some bushes and gets to it:





Apologies for the ******, blown up iPhone pix.

The hawk spent a couple of hours at its meal, and is now, noticeably fatter, taking a break and maybe a nap in a tree by the little pond in the yard. My guess is it will go back to feeding once it digests a bit.

We've been careful not to disturb it. Nature, red in tooth and claw. (AKA everybody's gotta eat!)

*We looked the bird up. We think a Sharp Shinned Hawk, but might also be a Coopers Hawk.