it's enough to make me cry!

[nwyman]

I was driving (very slowly) down a back-country road today, when this hawk flew right in front of the car and landed in a tree nearby. Didn't have time to even turn the engine off - so I shot through the less-than-immaculate front window, right before the hawk decided to move on.

I'm almost positive it's a sharp-shinned hawk. If so, this is the first time I've actually seen one.

One of these days, this is all going to come together, right?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2305/2187965235_8b13f49fb6_o.jpg

[jlcarnagey]

I feel your pain. They are usually gone by the time I pull over too.

[woody64]

Most of the ones i have encountered are the same way by the time you get stop there gone. At least this one you can tell it's a hawk.lol

[RudyN]

I know that kind of stuff can drive you nuts. I was going out to my deck to put some bird seed in my feeders. The birds already there flew off as normal. I then heard some heavier wing beats and a Sharp Spined hawk flew down, landed on the railing and looked at me for a minute or two!! Of course I had no camera and If I moved he would have flown off anyway. Eventually he flew off, but it was the closest I have ever been to a hawk in the "wild".