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Birds on Utility Poles – The Electrocution Solution

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Part of the rabbit he had caught was still entangled in a nearby powerline. Knowing the dangling rabbit remains would be an irresistible target for other birds, Jayne called the local power company. Kelley Ward, founder of Featherhaven in Washington State, remembers a nesting pair of eagles across the creek from her house.

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The Queen

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Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up. And to prove it, there’s The Queen. When she didn’t fly off, he stopped his car and approached her.

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Swainson’s Hawks in Plumas County

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They are listed as a Species of Special Concern in Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, and as Threatened in California. Like most buteos, the Swainson’s Hawk feeds its young rodents, rabbits and reptiles but not so during non-breeding season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tVjohOIdI. v=Q7tVjohOIdI.

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Desi and the Bunnies

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What kid can resist the siren song of bunny rabbits frolicking in the grass? And Desi, being the offspring of two pretty cool people, if I do so say myself, loves chasing him some rabbits. Rabbits practically beg to be chased, with their cuteness and their swiftness and their uncatchability. Why wouldn’t he?

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