What the heck is this?, Eating critters in my yard. Options

[machina]

In my yard eating several critters.

Can't tell in the pics but this thing is big, like the size of a big cat.

Pretty sure its not a pelican. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

PS: OT

[balljoint]

I see two or three hawks every day on my commute to and from work. Sometimes sitting in trees, sometimes soaring and sometimes staying exactly in one spot, hovering in an updraft over a field. Neat.

During a trip out to Vancouver Island a few years ago, my wife and I stayed at a bed & breakfast in Hamilton, BC.
The proprieters knocked on our door one afternoon and asked us if we wanted to watch them feed the eagle.
It seems for the past 15 years these people had been feeding this eagle and one before it, every Sunday afternoon. They walked out into the street and they could see the eagle sitting 200 feet up in it's nest in a tree. The guy would take a raw chicken leg and start to windmill his arm and the eagle would drop out of the nest. Then the guy would fling this chicken leg up in the air and the eagle would grab it mid flight about 20 feet over our heads at an incredible speed. That was a neat thing to see.