1979 Ronald L. Mumme Buteo lineatus Red-shouldered Hawk Univ. S. Florida Golf Course, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL 29 Dec On the Tampa CBC with John Post & Susan McRay about 1100, John walked through the Brush on the northwest side of the sixth hole pond, flushing a young Red-shouldered Hawk carrying a dead Green Heron. The hawk flew over the dirt road (where Susan & I were standing) and over the ditch into the patch of pines at the bend in 46th street, northwest of the pond. We followed the hawk in and flushed it again. Beneath its first perch in the pines was the decapitated cold + stiff body of a the heron. At its new perch in the Slash Pines the hawk began picking the flesh of the head of the green heron. It broke off one of the mandibles, and appeared to pick the flesh & brain cleanly off the skull. We found a portion of the skull later, and there was absolutely no [illegible] shred of flesh or brain. Weather was warm, partly cloudy. Don't know if the hawk killed the heron, or just picked up a dead one