I looked in a book of birds of the north east to see if I could find the big hawks that sometimes hang around here and could not find anything that was as big as these things have been. I know birds don't weigh much but the length of those described did not coincide. We do have some eagles several miles away on a mountain further away from civilization. Maybe the young ones wander over here now and then. It is just so startling to see such huge birds after seeing regular sized birds at the feeders for so long. We do have morning doves around her that are ground feeders that might attract prey birds. |