Is that real? Something doesn't quite click for me - I'd expect a little more thrashing (or an impact-creter-like indentation at the site of contact) or far-less-precise wingfeather imprints.

That is a great picture. I assume that the big indentations are those of the struggling bunny.

Bird flies in, picks up bunny, flies off. The bird doesn't land at all. Think of an eagle snagging a fish out of the water. I've watched the local red-tail hawk pick up a mouse like that. (Not in the winter, though, so no neat pictures.)

What are the small tracks to the right leading over to the tree?

Thanks for this. It's grisly, but that's nature sometimes. I'm a big fan of animal sign. I recommend this, but this looks good too.

Did you know that you can tell what animal killed a carcass by the way it was fed upon? For example, bears often will nearly completely skin a carcass, I believe starting from the neck and pulling the hide down. Evidently brains are tasty too and many predators like them. A bear who's not too hungry but is fishing anyway will often eat the brains and leave the rest.

I found the beautiful, very recent corpse of a huge blue heron once. I've never studied signs left by hawk predation, but that's the only animal I could've imagined killing this bird in the middle of the day. Again, the brains were picked at, but everything else was intact, as we'd probably accidentally chased the hawk away. A heron's wings stretch and fold beautifully and are immense.

Back on tracks and sign, you just wouldn't believe how much a good tracker can tell from scat, too, LOL.

Wow. I just found this accidentally while googling bunny pics.