[Birdtalk] FW: Raptor behavior during snow cover.

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 It was submitted by Fred Edwards on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 12:47:00
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Subject: Raptor behavior during snow cover.
 
Email_Address: annakare at gmail.com
 
Message: The back of my house in west Kaysville faces southwest looking over part of the Great Salt Lake Shore lands Preserve. We see hawks and other raptors throughout the year but when snow covers the ground for more than a week we begin to see hawks and owls more frequently. They fly along the irrigation canal that borders our property. They fly quite low, 10 to 15 feet above the canal bottom. I assume that it is a more successful hunting strategy when the fields are snow covered. Can anyone confirm this as a known winter behavior of raptors? 
 
Fred Edwards
 
 


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