Hawk Munching at Our Bird Feeder

[DCB]

An ominous Cooper's Hawk hoping to find some tasty snacks at our bird feeder yesterday morning. :)

http://www.el-paseo.info/downloads/coopershawk/hawk1.jpg


http://www.el-paseo.info/downloads/coopershawk/hawk2.jpg

Crafty little bastard was hanging out on the neighbor's deck, keeping an evil eye on the feeder, about 50 yards away.

Beautiful bird, though.

[cfcRebel]

Nice captures! Beautiful bird indeed.

[DCB]

Thanks. Oddly enough, my wife shot it. She grabbed my camera, asked how to turn it on, and handheld the shot. I hope I don't lose my camera over this. :)

[tupe]

Don't know if it's beginner's luck, or the beginnings of real talent, but your wife took a couple of great shots. Thanks for sharing.

(I'm so compulsive I feel like Monk on the tv show, bu I can't stop worrying about that white spot. I'll clean it off if ya like.) ;)

[CyberDyneSystems]

Very nice :)
Definitely looks like it's thinking of it's next meal :)

It's hard to tell.. I'm only trying to judge based on an estimate of size in relation to the railing..
But it may be a SHarp Shinned Hawk?

[DCB]

You might be right about the type of bird. My wife told me what she thought it was--all I knew is that it was a bird, and definitley not a 747. :)

[robertwgross]

A sharp-shinned hawk weighs 5 ounces, on average.

A Cooper's hawk weighs 16 ounces, on average.

That's a big difference.

---Bob Gross---

[CyberDyneSystems]

Yeah... I really don't get to see many of either .. but the Coopers I photographed recently looked like a bulldog! He dwarfed the pidgeon it was eating...

...this one looks about pidgeon sized to me? :)