At the Randall museum today an adult Red-tailed Hawk flew down and landed about 15 feet from me and made quick work of a Jerusalem Cricket (aka - Niño de la Tierra). More evidence of the importance of insects in the diet of Red-tails.
It took a moment to orient the insect correctly... maybe because they can inflict a bite with their mandibles.
Click the image to get a better sense of scale. This is the same hawk toward dusk, surveying the cityscape below.
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Great stuff, Walter. I especially welcome the news (to me) that the city hosts martian crickets.
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