the hawk - an amazing bird

[GRAY GHOST]

hello all, we were doing a job at a granary in richmond the other day, and walking out the door of the building saw two pigeons on a wire, out the corner of my eye. not paying much attention to them, a brown blur suddenly dive bombed and struck both pigeons. the hawk immediatley had one of the pigeons, had caught it in mid air during its fall and flew off with it clutched in its talons. the other pigeon hit the ground and soon died of a broken neck. all of this in a second or two, it was an awesome example of the powers of nature. just awesome. two in one lick... had to do a double take.

 

[Royal]

I had a friend that had a hawk snag a starling right off his bird feeder and I saw one fly past my car and grab a bird of some sort off a bird bath right along the dirt road I was slowly driving along.

One of my neighbors saw an eagle snag a running rabbit from the side of the road. She could not believe it. The rabbit had just ran in front of her and she had breaked and the eagle came out of nowhere, from behind her and snagged that sucker.

Thanks for posting. Nature is so interesting

 

[Micheal_R]

you cannot go into town without seeing at least 10 of them. These are the small hawks [coopers, sparrow] that are hunting the mice, voles and rabbits in the valley.

Fair winds

Mikie

 

[Larry (IL)]

It is really fun to watch the birds of pray hunt. While boating we keep an eye out for the bald eagles......who is keeping an eye out for a fish.....who keeping an eye out for................well you know how it goes.

A truly majestic bird and Nancy has taken some very nice pictures of them.

 

[david(tx)]

that had a cardinal it was chasing squalling,i saw it about a month ago on my sisters place,the cardinal flew up into a bush where the hawk had a hard time getting at it,i think it escaped.

 

[Royal]

I raised one up back in the early 60's and turned it loose. Cute little sucker. Here is one with a starling

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42969000/jpg/_42969843_sparrowhawk.jpg

 

[david(tx)]

to be the favorite food of hawks,i saw a redtail snatch one in flight.i'm pretty sure the hawk population around here is up,i use to hardly see them.