The entertainment value of fresh bones

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Sunday on the way home from church I stopped for a dozen eegs and noticed a man carrying a bag of chicken legs from the store. Once inside I checked the price and at 49 cents a pound bought two ten pound bags. Yesterday I cut them up and packaged the thighs and drums separately and cooked the back bones for the stock, meat and rendered fat. When I was finished picking the bones I put them out to feed the fox and the birds. Within an hour a hawk that frequents the yard was picking the tid bits of meat from the bones. Today he was back on the feeder picking meat from our lunch bones. Later I boned a raw thigh and put that bone out and two hours later the hawk was back for that bone. All of the little birds that frequent the yard were on the ground eating what they could find and when the hawk took flight the little birds scattered into the cover.