We woke up to discover a nature “kill” of a rabbit. The bunny had been torn apart and fur was everywhere. Half of the rabbit was left behind and some of the guts. So, we talked with the camp ranger (who came to clean up the rampage) and our neighbors. We couldn’t figure out how a coyote could have possibly been the aggressor and Karma not waking us up. A cat would be challenged to avoid the rabbit’s back feet kicks and kill the bunny.
Later in the early evening, we figured out the culprit. A Red-Tailed Hawk showed up looking for his dinner. It was a beautiful bird, about a foot tall with a very broad chest. The hawk just swooped down outside the desk window that faces the back and sat in the grass. He was close to where the rabbit parts had been. We think he was looking for his kill for dinner before flying up into a nearby tree to think about his loss. Boots has gotten a fleeting glimpse of it as it flew away from the kill site early that morning and thought it might have been a turkey vulture or such scavenging the remains.
