Hawks

[mnhtnbb]

What a morning! I saw--through my front door--a hawk flying towards my house. Turned and saw through the living room window the shadow of it flying overhead. It perched on the roof three houses away. Managed a shot through my window, but when I went outside it flew away into the woods beyond the pond.

So, I got a cup of coffee and went out on my covered porch with the camera to wait and see if it would come back.

My best three shots.

I think it's a red shouldered hawk.







After it flew back into the woods again, it came out a few minutes later accompanied by a second hawk! I think the second one is a Cooper's hawk--on the left--and the original one--on the right--from the previous two shots is a red shouldered hawk.

[SheltieLover]

1. Beautiful! 😍

Ty for sharing.

[mnhtnbb]

7. Thank you!

[SheltieLover]

12. YW! 👍

Ty for sharing!

[niyad]

2. Thank you.

[mnhtnbb]

8. My pleasure!

[2naSalit]

3. What a cool morning you've had!

Thanks for sharing these great shots!

[mnhtnbb]

9. It was!

Most fun morning sitting out with my camera in quite some time.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Wow, they are magnificent!

Love the first pic with all the feathers splayed out. Great shots!

[Blue Dawn]

5. I love that photo, too.

I agree with you that they are great shots!

[mnhtnbb]

10. Serendipity!

Just a burst that caught that moment in flight.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Wow, these are great shots! Especially the one with his wings spread.

How lucky for you. Living in such a place with these magnificent wild creatures all around!

:wow

[mnhtnbb]

11. That shot was serendipity

from a burst. No other way to get lucky with it in flight. I was amazed I even had the camera pointed in the right direction and that the hawk flew up to the fence from my side, rather than the pond side.

Both hawks flew over the pond a couple of times, but my best shot of them together in flight was too far away to be very good.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

13. Great shots!

Were the crows chasing the hawks?

[mnhtnbb]

14. Hawks were chasing the crows.

Only one crow that wasn't intimidated by the hawk that flew up to perch on the railing next to it.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

15. Cool!

Around here the crows usually gang up on the crows two or three to one, and chase them away.

[HAB911]

16. Beautiful! We always have Crows nesting

in our large Oaks and a couple of years ago, we heard the loudest racket of about 10 just squawking like crazy and sitting on our back fence, looking down in a drainage ditch. It must have gone on for 10 or 15 minutes until a couple of Hawks arrived on the fence, the Crows calmed down, and sat for a minute and took off, leaving the Hawks looking intently in the ditch.

I assume all the rukus was over a snake in the ditch, one of the Hawks did fly down into it and check things out, but the snake had made his getaway and no one got fed that day.

We have a lot of Black Racers and I have even seen Blue Jays attacking them before.

[mnhtnbb]

17. The woods surrounding this new housing development have a murder of crows

--don't you love the language for a "flock" of crows-- that are the noisiest damn birds. They are often here in the morning and the evening. They must hang out in the woods during the day when it's so hot. I'm fairly certain we had a Canadian goose sitting on a nest by the pond in the spring, with her partner staying right near her to frighten off the crows that were trying to get her off the nest. Never saw any goslings, so I think they might have succeeded. I watched them many times swoop down and the male lift off the water with his wings flapping to scare them away. It might have been the hawks or something else, too that got to the eggs. But the crows were trying their best to get her off the nest.

[George McGovern]

18. Wonderful scenes mnhtnbb!