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OT: woodchuck catching a hawk????

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IA Leo

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My old barn has easy access for the barn swallows, racoons and what looks like a woodchuck. Big, brown and furtive behavior..dug a big hole under an intertior cement floor grain bin. Now near the hole was two complete wings of what looked like a hawk. The body and head gone. Not a pigeon, bigger and barred brown feathers about the size of a mature chicken and I have no chickens. Not a pheasant, I think. How would this woodchuck get ahold of a bird?
 
Sometimes a large branch will snap off and kill a hawk then a racoon will gladly eat it.I think ground hogs eat vegatation only.
 
From the internet: Woodchucks prefer to feed in the early morning and evening hours. They are strict herbivores and feed on a variety of vegetables, grasses, and legumes. Preferred foods include soybeans, beans, peas, carrot tops, alfalfa, clover, and grasses.
So if it is a woodchuck, it didn't do it.
Now a badger is a different story.
An aggressive barn cat can and will take down a big bird.
Good luck, JimN
 
Oops since I made a wise crack about spelling today that should be raccoon not racoon.Had it right then changed it cause it didnt look right.Two C's.
 
Never knew of a "whistle pig" to ever eat anything but "green" stuff. (Maybe they should be the mascots for the "greenies" of today.)
 
id also be inclined to think either the bird wings got left there by something else or your woodchuck is really a bager
 
Thanks. There is a neighbor cat frequenting the barn. I have never noticed the woodchuck making tracks in the nearby garden (soft dirt) but the holes the deer make are almost 6 inches deep after a rain (plenty of that this year).
 
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