The bird clawed its prey at a playground and park in the heart of Somerville.
Somerville Patch reader Sarah Hassan recently captured these amazing photos of a hawk with a dead rat in its talons. Hassan said in an email she took the photos at about 5:15 p.m. on Oct. 24 when she was at Edward Leathers Community Park with her mother. Edward Leathers Park, not far from City Hall, Somerville High School and the library, has a play area for children, a dog run, and space for people to sit on benches and walk. Hassan said she and her mother saw the hawk when it suddenly flew out of some bushes with the rat. When someone passed by the bird, it flew off, she said. She also took photos of the blood splotches left behind by the kill.
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A Patch user took the video near the Somerville Fire Department headquarters.
Somerville firefighter Tommy Ross recently uploaded this video of what appears to be a hawk outside the Somerville Fire Department headquarters in Winter Hill. The hawk, perched atop a utility poll with a dramatic evening sky in the background, seems to be eating a carcass of some sort. The hawk isn't the only fascinating bird of prey seen in the area. Late last year, another Patch reader photographed a snowy owl at the Healey School.
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