Post your Raptors
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D'Grump
Senior Member
Came home to find this hawk in the backyard. At first I thought it was a Cooper’s Hawk because I see them quite often around here. Looked a little closer and decided it was a Red Tailed. I see them occasionally in the area, but I’ve never seen one taking a bird from my backyard before. Figured it was a pigeon or maybe a mourning dove because they are the slowest birds that frequent my backyard.
Left to go out for lunch so as to not disturb the hawk, and when we got back the hawk was still finishing up.
After the hawk left, I went outside to look at “The Scene Of The Crime”, and discovered that the “Victim” was NOT a dove or pigeon, but a Cooper’s Hawk! I’ve never seen a hawk take another hawk for a meal in my 76 years!
A closer look at the “victim’s” tail, which is what I used to determine it was a Cooper’s Hawk, and not a Sharp Shinned Hawk.
Never realized that there were that many feathers on a Cooper’s Hawk! Sure did leave a mess in my backyard!
Andy
Left to go out for lunch so as to not disturb the hawk, and when we got back the hawk was still finishing up.
After the hawk left, I went outside to look at “The Scene Of The Crime”, and discovered that the “Victim” was NOT a dove or pigeon, but a Cooper’s Hawk! I’ve never seen a hawk take another hawk for a meal in my 76 years!
A closer look at the “victim’s” tail, which is what I used to determine it was a Cooper’s Hawk, and not a Sharp Shinned Hawk.
Never realized that there were that many feathers on a Cooper’s Hawk! Sure did leave a mess in my backyard!
Andy
Bikerbrent
Senior Member
Yes Andy, your bird made a large mess!!
