Ok here goes. I am a novice birdwatcher but do observe them and take not of how many I see, especially birds of prey.

So my office looks out into the old rec yard of the Mt Vernon jail. It is about 50 x 50. ft two stories with a couple sapling in it. I had noticed a robin had begun nesting in a sapling. It quickly chose another spot because it was continually getting spooked by our presence.
But today I looked out the window and watched closely two robins systematically working the yard for what I thought were insects. One Robin was a super fat one and the other a nice looking one as well.

I watched for about 3 minutes and went about my work. I came back to the office about an hour later and was checking to see if the two robin were still in the yard......well one was. And he or she was in the claws of a hawk being eaten. Feathers all over the place, and only some entrails and a beak on the ground.

Hawk or falcon noticed me and i ducked out of site, super excited about what I had just seen. I slowly rose over the windowsill and tried to keep watching. Well, Mr Falcon saw me once again and after about a 5 second staredown at 25 ft he flew up and out, with the mostly eaten carcass. Too cool. Kinda like catchin a steelhead.

Nature is all around. Skagit river close by, and after consulting a game book I am guessing a Kestrel. Any expert birdwatchers out there? It was a smaller sized hawk/falcon with a brown white mottled back.

It also had piercing eyes that to me looked like a terminator. I can still remember them. Wife says I should grab the feathers and tie a few flies.