Warning! Graphic content! Redtailed hawk catches a muskrat

[pinktissues]

That was so graphic. I'm not sure I'll be able to get over its haunting imagery. Might even get nightmares...

[BrokerMike73]

@pinktissues haha!!! i know right!

[BrokerMike73]

@pinktissues haha!!! i know right! too horrifying

[tstrike2000]

Always love graphic conent.

[chale295]

Interesting video but wondering how you happened to catch the muskrat and red tailed hawk together. Was the muskrat somehow placed there for the hawk to find? Also, skip the music--it anthropomorphizes a totally natural occurrence.

[TheChoujinVirus]

@chale295

idk, it's not baiting, but to a hawk food is food

[OGLUIGI13]

I LOVE IT!

[K1LL3RM4N1]

the little bird is a scout.

[MBJB07]

Great footage!

[chobochotch]

Really great catch on the camera trap.

I am wondering if the muskrat was playing dead there up until around 2 minutes in

[LadySWakefield]

A Red-tailed hawk tried to bust thru my patio screen door to get to my 10 year old house cat. I slammed the glass door shut and that scared it away. I found my cat later, terrified under my bed. This happened at 2:30pm on 10-8-11. Does that sound normal or can hawks contract rabies?

[kyle2892]

Red tailed hawks are some badasses. They will swoop down and club turkeys in the head in order to render them unconscious.

[heidbrain]

what are you using for bait ? i want some..

[hawareman1973]

Nothing graphic about that!!! Just nature taking place.  Unless your a member of PETA

[CactusJackSlade]

@hawareman1973

When animals kill animals is OK... but when humans kill animals....??... a double standard?

[chobochotch]

@CactusJackSlade first off, humans are animals. second, a red-tail hawk must eat other animals to survive, it is not good or bad, it has no choice.

A human that kills animals for reasons other than food is making a conscious decision to do so, it is not necessary for the humans survival.

[pop66677766]

there varmit any ways

[DaniMart2005]

This is what National Geographic pays hundreds of Pro-Naturalists over Thousands of Dollars each year, all over the Globe to catch on film with their high-grade expensive camera equipment, and you just did it for free with a $50 off-the-shelf camera trap and posted it on YouTube! Now that's the nature of entertainment.....

[taburineagle]

That's a pretty awesome catch! It's hard to catch action shots like that using camera traps that stay stationary!

[petboy9]

loco its not inf ront of the camera you cant even see the hawk hurt the little thing

[TheBoneRanger1968]

@petboy9...that's why you pay a real person for their work.. Pretty good but it's missing that initial strike. Too bad the muskrat wasn't paying attention to the other bird.

[vanessa40]

Amazing that he sat right in front of the camera