robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Looked out the door - it was sitting on the lawn chair then flew down to the ground.
While I reached for my camera it flew up to the fence.
Took one shot through double pained glass and screen, results what you would expect. Slid door open and snapped two through screen, just in case. Then carefully and slowly slid screen open and fire off 7 quick frames - last one of a partial hawk shaped blur leaving on the east bound express. Clouds and rain this morning, hazy late afternoon sunlight so high ISO. If it had not taken off the next step was to mount my flash and try that.

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From Looks and Actions I Do Believe This is a Juvie Sharp Shinned, But the Red Eye Says Adult

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cmc65

Well this is wonderful. No worries, he'll be back.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

They will scare off other wildlife. Nice capture.

LUIS CABALQUINTO Loc: New York City

PERFECT IMAGE!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Yeah, why dine anywhere else except Cafe Perkins.

Why can't the lazy bum go hunt along the river or the freeway margins like the other hawks?

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Yes, they certainly will. Feeders I refilled daily are now good for a week to 10 days. Thanks.

cmc65

Every so often I have to stop putting out seed. I can't live with the guilt when the hawks move in. It works for awhile but then the story repeats.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thank you. Would have been more perfect through the sights of my target rifle. But the State Game People, City Cops and Neighbors would all take a dim view of that. I want my variety back. Unless this guy is a ham/camera hog and can learn to pose in exchange for my wife's trimmings when she cooks.
Besides it isn't like it was eating the chickens on the farm (capital offense for hawks), just keeping me from having it too easy to photograph birds without leaving the house.

MikWar Loc: Chicago, Western Suburbs

good grab. even the big birds don't stays still long.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

In the past the birds kept coming anyway. Maybe this summer produced a real good crop of food elsewhere or I have a whole brood of young hawks raised in the area. Summer before last I had a hawk visiting that was bigger and the birds ignored it. All it seemed to eat was field mice, tree rats and lizards. I got a few shots of it eating a lizard on top of the power pole in the yard while the birds kept going after the feeders.
The feeder under the play house on the old swing set still gets a fair number of birds, I guess they feel safer with over head protection. It was suggested I put up posts, build frames, put 4x8 trellis sheets on top (or fence wire) to make a large arbor. Then let morning glories, grapes or other vines grow over them and put the feeders under there. But the light would then be a problem. And if I put the picnic table and lawn chairs under there I would have to constantly clean them.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks, not like the egrets that preen and pose for long periods at a time between fishing spells at the park ponds.

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

Hire a "murder" of crows. Last week, during a meeting of my breakfast club, a Cooper's hawk landed in the middle of 30 pigeons, but all 8 of the crows present immediately acted together to escort the hawk away. Here and gone before I could react, but two of the squirrels who were there went to confession later that morning.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Next door is a tree aprx 3X as tall as my two story house, it sometimes has a good crop of crows and I have never seen a hawk land anywhere in the area when they are there. Saw crows gang up on hawks a lot back on the farm, but they were both on the "shoot first and admire later" list in farm county. The crows always and the hawks when they took to hanging around the farm chickens.

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

That will do it!!
Pat

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Crow vs Hawk popularity index for farmers:
1. Hawks eat mice etc in crops - Good
2. Crows chase off hawks - Bad
3. Crows eat crops - Very Bad
4. Crows eat insects and some mice etc - Good
5. Hawks now hang around barnyard and eyeball chickens - Very Bad
6. Hawks also eat pigeons, doves etc that eat the feed in the barnyard - Good
7. Crows, now stuffed look for something to do, chase hawks away from barnyard - Good
8. Crows have now gotten hungry again from chasing hawks so start eating feed in barnyard - Bad
9. Hawks go back to hunting mice, rats etc in the crops - Good

Result, hawks slightly more popular (if they stay away from the chickens) but Farmer's head is spinning from keeping track so he just grabs his Goose Gun and shoots at both to work it out of his system. If the Game Warden sees him shoot a crow, not a big deal. If the Game Warden sees him shoot a hawk that can lead to BIG trouble depending on the kind of hawk. Farmer could end up in the Federal Pen and that is Very Very Very BAD!!!!! So the Farmer just eats a bottle of Excedrin and watches TV for a while.