Area Birders, Today, just before sunset, my wife, who was in another room, called for me to come quickly. I rushed in just in time to look out the window and see a "snow" shower of dove feathers floating softly to the ground not far from our seed feeders. A few feet away on the ground a female Sharp-shinned was finishing off the dove. It then began to pick the feathers off before having its meal. My wife had looked up from the computer just in time to see the hawk make contact with the dove only 6 or 8 feet from the window. I watched the Sharpie with binos for the next 20 minutes or so as it consumed its meal. It then glided silently into the nearby woods. Enjoy the birds, Roger Mayhorn Compton Mt (near Grundy) Buchanan County VA