In late April, my brother and his family came to visit us from Vermont. It was the first time my nephew Noggo (Odgen Hersey) had come to Texas. When we hiked up the Pinnacles Trail in the Chisos Basin of Big Bend National Park, I pointed out zone-tailed hawks circling far above us, and mentioned that they look a lot like turkey vultures, and especially from a distance the birds are hard to tell apart. During their week here, with his Nikon Coolpix, Nog took a lot of photos, including several of the cluster of turkey vultures roosting in the cypress trees behind our house. When they got back home and Nog was perusing his photos of the vultures visible from our backyard, he noticed a zone-tailed hawk in a few of them. We were skeptical, chalking it up to the wishful thinking of an 8.5 year old, albeit one who is very astute and very attune to the natural world. However, when my brother and sister-in-law looked more closely at the images, they saw that Nog was right: he had not only captured well a zone-tailed hawk, but one in the midst of eating freshly killed prey. In figure 1, above, note intact prey lying across branch; in figure 2, below, note prey being shredded by the raptor. Thank you, Noggo!  —Ed.