I arrived after the Eurasian Eagle-Owl had flown out to find him on a pile of compost. He then flew to a tree and quickly caught a rat behind one of the dumpsters. He mantled it for a few seconds before flying off to a hill, where he had to kill it. Tonight we heard two squeals, once when he caught the rate and once when he killed it.

After about ten minutes, he flew to a nearby tree where you could see him with a loose feather. (He began molting last week.) He continued to one of the Black Locusts before flying to another Black Locust with a good horizontal branch for eating. He then spent 40 minutes eating most of the rat.

He then went to a compost pile in the nursery changing positions a few times, but seemed uninterested in finish the rat. At that point it was late, and I left for the evening.

The video contains about 30 minutes of Flaco eating.