Great anecdotal story that doesn’t seem to have much meat to it...
Here is an interesting tidbit though. 60-70% of wild turkey poults die in the first four weeks after birth. So maybe it’s just nature and not one particular “predator”.
And I highly doubt you’ve seen hundreds of red tailed hawks sitting in a wheat field. Red tails don’t generally flock and don’t hunt together.
Actually, that was about six different stories, and never did I say that one particular predator was responsible for all the game being killed.
What I did say is that red tailed hawks eat a lot of game animals and their numbers are at nuisance levels where I live.
If you want to see red tailed hawks congregate, all you have to do is brush hog my pasture. Within about thirty minutes, you will be swarmed by a kettle (funny how they have a name for a group of birds that don’t group up) of them.
I was born and raised in the southern plains. I know how to identify a red tailed hawk. I also know how to count. I know what I saw and I used the word “literally” literally, not figuratively. But then again, maybe you know more about my land than I do. Yeah, I’m sure that’s it.