Looking at that it seems very possible that it was diving on one of those rabbits but didn’t count on the hard trex deck. Go figure. Was it a red tailed hawk?I didn't take a pic of the corpse, but today my husband was trimming a shrub just off the back deck that often conceals a rabbit den. He called me over to show me the very fresh body of a hawk under it! No visible wounds or broken bones.
Last night we had heard a loud thump out on the deck. Maybe it misjudged a dive on something? Or maybe these guys are killer bunnies?
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