Cooper's Hawk

[wls3]

Had a visitor to my Wildlife Sanctuary (backyard) yesterday.
Have seen him several times now and finally got a photo.
I wondered why all the other birds had left the feeders.

Bill

Cooper's Hawk (juvenille)

 

[woodsac]

Cool shot Bill :thumbup:

You mentioned the birds all leaving...
About 2 weeks ago, I went through McD's on my way to work. Every morning there are about 30 pigeons and 5 or 6 ravens out behind their dumpster in the desert. Well, while I'm waiting in the drive-thru, I notice that the pigeons won't land? They circle go towards the ground and fly back up, circle, and repeat.
I knew something was up, thought maybe there was a snake out there? This goes on for about 2 minutes. As I'm pulling away from the speaker, I barely catch a glimpse of something. There's this massive red-tail hawk sitting right next to the dumpster...and he's got a pigeon under one foot I tried to hurry and grab my camera, but he flew off. With the pigeon! It was very cool to see.

 

[JOAT]

great capture! I'm very eager to get my first good hawk pic, we've got a few red tails flying around every now and then.

 

[Raymond J Barlow]

Great shot of the Coopers Bill, nice to see the sun again finally!!!

 

[AIRIC]

Great shot Bill, I have yet to get a decent Hawk photo. One of the more challenging birds to shoot. I'm starting to loose it and can't wait for airshow season to kick in again. I need some wood, fabric and metal birds to shoot preferably RR Merlin powered. Can't wait to see you guys at Geneseo.

Eric