Hawk Backyard Feeding Feast!

Back in March, I took these photos from my backyard. The poor Muscovy duck, I think, had been sick and that made it easy pickings for predators such as this Red-shouldered Hawk. I had seen the duck laying in this spot a day or two earlier and didn’t think that much about it.

This is the nature of nature. Survival of the fittest. Being opportunistic.

Not at all a pretty site. It is what it is.

A Canada Goose passed by, thinking, perhaps, gulp, glad that’s not me!

Hawk: Don’t judge me! I’m just doing what I’m supposed to do to thrive and survive. 

I posted these gruesome pictures on Facebook and a few of its South Carolina birding and nature sites in which I have membership.  I noted there, as I do here, that by the next morning, the Muscovy carcass, feathers- everything- was gone! That surprised me.