What New York backyard predator does not consume the tail and hindquarters of its prey, mostly small rodents?

I live in a wooded development on Long Island (NY) close to a large park and near several backyard barns. We have typical suburban wildlife, including raccoons, possum, fox and hawks, as well as domestic cats. We have not seen any fox in the development, but they are in the park. Something is killing and eating rodents, including rats and mice, but leaving the tail and hindquarters. My puppy finds new remains almost daily. We have an acre of property, so I am sure there are remains that we are not finding. I have also found plucked feathers from birds. This is the first time this has happened and we have lived here three years. Any ideas on what this might be? Just curious. I do not plan on taking any steps to get rid of whatever it is.What New York backyard predator does not consume the tail and hindquarters of its prey, mostly small rodents?
Unfortunately, I know from personal experience that cats do this. Mine would often present me with a lovely rabbit 'haunch' first thing in the morning. %26lt;Sigh!%26gt; They are also well known for bird predation.What New York backyard predator does not consume the tail and hindquarters of its prey, mostly small rodents?
Well it could be a different variety of things but I think that it is most likely a domestic cat because they tend to eat half of the mouse or rodent and leave whatever else is left for someone that they love or care about. it's their way of showing affection.
You wouldn't see the cat, as most hunt at night and sleep during the day. But I would pretty much garantee that you have a feline predator in your neighborhood.
its not a hawk or any type of bird because they just eat the whole thing





its most likely a cat. they eat what they need or what they want then leave the rest.
I live in Florida, but same situation. I have actually seen a red shouldered hawk catching doves and then defeathering them in my yard. (there is little evidence it happened other than the pile of feathers.)


I also have found the bodies of rodents from just below the shoulders down. I believe it's either a domestic cat or a racoon that has done this, because I've seen both at the time I found the rodents. (Although the ones that I found were small rats that were killed in a trap, and we dumped the remains in the woods at the perimeter of the yard.) They weren't hunted.