marler1957 Loc: Marietta, GA

I live about 25 miles north of Atlanta...I stopped working in my garden at 5:30PM. The next day I went out my basement door at 10:30AM to continue working in the garden. In a space 40ft by 50ft in my backyard were feathers from a Red Tailed Hawk (see first picture). I counted 109 feathers not including "additional fluff" (see second picture).

We have had Great Horned Owls living in the woods just east of my house for the 27 years which I have lived here. Do you think one caught a Red Tailed Hawk or are the feathers just from molting?

1st picture: Z8, NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S, f/5, 1/100 sec, ISO-64, 24mm
2nd picture: Z8, NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S, f/4, 1/30 sec, ISO-900, 28mm

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Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Just speculation, but they all look like down feathers. If an owl took a Redtail, I would think that there would be more and different kinds of feathers. Where you live is far enough south that I don't think it's too early to be molting. I suspect that is what's happening.

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

lukevaliant Loc: gloucester city,n. j.

i think molting

rockdog Loc: Berkeley, Ca.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA