November 4, 2025
Underneath a pine tree along the road leading down to Natural Bridges State Beach, a red shoulder hawk devoured its prey using its curved beak for piercing and ripping and sharp talons for gripping. Many students had never seen a red tail hawk up this close, let alone engaging in the ancient act of eating its prey. The hawk showed no sign of disaproval of us watching either.
Connecting some fun facts from this book, read before to most of the students- hawks- like the red shoulder before us, have UV vision, allowing them to detect the urine trails of small mammals, that glow under fluorescent light, or for hawks, their own vision. How illuminating!
Red Shoulder Hawk eating prey
Rope swing
Animals spotted: Red Shoulder Hawk, Deer, Rabbits, Killdeer bird,
Plants: Willow, Eucalyptus
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