1FTR Loc: Pacific Northwest - Portland area

The Blue Jay's shrieking set off the dogs which got me up off the couch to go see what was the matter. Seems this Sharp-shinned Hawk (please correct me if wrong) plucked a Jayling out of the front yard Pine and had it pinned fin the garden. By the time I grabbed my camera, it managed to fly across the street with it--pretty heavy load for such a small hawk. Then it flew-dragged it up a small incline into needles and shadows by a neighbor's house. And I thought I was done with pics for the day. Late afternoon neighborhood drama. Pretty hawk.

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

Beautiful Hawk....WOW.....nice set. Good job.

WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

Nice job!
Yup that a Sharp-shinned.
Great catch of its "covering" behaviour.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

More of your good work!

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Farm Boy Loc: Mendota Illinois

very goood!

Barn Owl

1FTR, Very impressive photos and thanks for your post! I especially like number 1. Can you please provide more info on the camera and lens used?

DeeAndre Loc: Boyertown PA

Great drama and great photos.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Great capture of a beautiful bird. The first one deserves a spot on the wall

gwr Loc: South Dartmouth, Ma.

Nice shots. #2 shows classic "mantling " behavior. Gary

Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY

Well done!

1FTR Loc: Pacific Northwest - Portland area

Happy to provide more information on yesterday's Death in the Short Grass. (There is a really good book, Death in The Long Grass). Discovered these feathers in the front lawn this aft. Apparently, the hawk nabbed the Jayling in the grass inside the front yard fence like 25' from the front door. I heard the Jay shrieking, but they are noisy anyway and nest in the Pine down by the street. Once the dogs started in, I knew it was serious drama. When I went out the front door, the Hawk picked up the pluckling and flew across the street. Of course, my camera was upstairs. The Hawk stayed in the neighbor's grass while I came down the driveway, but then struggled it up the slope into the pine needles. Both shots were taken on the fly some 50-60 feet from Hawk with a Canon R5 and a EOS RF 100-500mm lens (focused to max 500mm). Was about 3:20 p.m. with sunset just before 6. Settings included: f/7.1 with 1600 ISO; first shot was 1/160th and second one 1/125th. (These shutter speeds way slow (low) for full 500mm lens... but needed the light and didn't have time to adjust much of anything--all happened pretty fast--no more than 1 min between shots.

More than you probably wanted to know; but never ask a fisherman (my brother) or photographers to elaborate on their catch.

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