Nature Walk

We live surrounded by beautiful woods.  Mark and I took a walk back in our woods.  We were noticing newly fallen trees (a rich part of any ecosystem in the woods).  As we were walking back up to the house I saw a pile of feathers, then a head.  It was a newly killed red tailed hawk.  Nearby was a fallen tree on which the rest of the hawk's body had been devoured.  It was similar to other bird kills (song birds) where we would see a pile of feathers a remnant beak.

Hawks are pretty high on the food chain. We have bald eagles, barred owls and great horned owls.  Not sure which was the predator, but it was efficiently dispatched.

A reminder that nature while beautiful is not hospitable at times.  Eat or be eaten.