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.
So in a conversation distinctly about red tail hawks you mention “numerous anecdotal stories” about the loss of various “game animals” and other wildlife but somehow you now want to say you weren’t necessarily attributing that to red tail hawks? Christ you sound like a typical liberal...
And BTW, a kettle is generally attributed to Hawks when in flight, usually during migration. But rarely for Red Tails as they do not tend to congregate for migration. Either way kettle is used for all hawks not directly to Red Tails.