Once captured the prey is often carried to a "plucking post" — a branch, log or boulder the hawk uses with regularity as a place to pluck off the feathers or fur before devouring it.

Measurements, a feather plucked, weight taken, ... Hawk Watch International catches, releases sharp-shinned hawk on beautiful Mount Hood day (video) Updated: Sep. 27, 2012, 7:53 p.m.

A sharp-shinned hawk is one of the many raptors that migrate south during the fall. Some of the hawks stay in North America for the winter, but others head as far as Central America. (Jordan West ...

Then a sharp-shinned hawk came in, and I was just so excited and wanted to share it with Casper." An even dozen birders had gathered for this session and the conversation touched on a variety of ...

Sharp-shinned hawk preys on backyard birds Budd Titlow If you feed birds in your backyard, don’t be surprised if you’re watching one day and a bird at your feeder suddenly vanishes into thin air.

Almost identical in size, a young male sharp-shinned hawk and an adult blue jay have very little to fear from one another. That does not change the attitude of the jays, however. A sharp-shinned hawk ...

"He [the dead hawk] even still had down feathers and meat on his beak." Birds of prey, like sharp-shinned hawks, typically leave behind the legs and head of their avian meals, Di Sieno said.

A blue jay (top left) and an immature sharp-shinned hawk (bottom right) ... For about 20 minutes there wasn’t any sign of a single feather.

I gently reached. I gently resumed my original position and the hawk hadn’t moved. The photo gods were with me! The sharp-shinned hawk is the smallest member of a group of raptors known as the ...

The sharp-shinned is small-headed, but the Cooper’s has a large head that looks even larger because of the way it “styles” its feather-do. ... This hawk had magnificent head feathers.