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Squirrel, Not Hawk, Stole Your Tomato: A Garden Mystery Solved

We have a hawk's nest nearby and thought hawks were stealing tomatoes from our 40-ft tree. Is that possible?

Hawks Are Carnivores

Hawks eat live animals almost exclusively. A vegetarian hawk is extremely unlikely. The culprit is almost certainly a squirrel that carried the tomato up the tree to eat. The hawk may have then caught the squirrel!

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