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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat Do Red-tailed Hawks Eat?<\/h2>\n
According to AllAboutBirds<\/strong><\/a> Red-tailed Hawks prefer to eat mammals. Favourites include mice, voles, rats and rabbits. From what I\u2019ve read online, they happily munch on Eastern Grey Squirrels. (Those are the squirrels that are often black in southern Ontario.)<\/p>\n Better be careful!<\/em><\/p>\n They can also eat large birds, snakes and carrion.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019ll usually see Red Tails perched beside the road<\/a><\/strong> when you are out for a drive. They like to watch for the movement of mice, rabbits and squirrels on the ground from where they sit on a bare tree branch, light or telephone pole.<\/p>\n This Chip was smart enough to stay half hidden.<\/em><\/p>\n The will soar, too, though. They tend to fly in circles. The one I was watching at Riverwood would circle an area two or three times before moving to check another spot. Its circles were fairly low about 10 feet above the tree tops or in meadows 30 feet above the ground.<\/p>\n Some do.<\/p>\n According to AllAboutBirds<\/strong><\/a>, some birds move south in the fall and winter. They have to then find an area to hunt in where the year-round resident birds will not drive them away.<\/p>\n Here are some sample numbers from places where hawks and eagles congregate on migration before shifting en masse further south. Many more hawks migrate through other geographical funnels. This is just to give you an idea that the numbers are large:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nDo Red-tailed Hawks Migrate?<\/h2>\n
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\nBy November 15, 2013, they had counted 3269 Red-tailed Hawks moving past.<\/li>\n
\nBy November 15, 2013, they had counted 3636 Red-taileds.<\/li>\n
\nBy November 11, 2013 they had counted 3797 Red-tailed Hawks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n