I Think I See a Snack! Coopers Hawk diving off the old swing set in our yard after a possible late afternoon snack. Canon R7, RF 100-400 @ 259mm, 1/1000, f/8, ISO-2000 could have used...

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Coopers Hawk diving off the old swing set in our yard after a possible late afternoon snack.
Canon R7, RF 100-400 @ 259mm, 1/1000, f/8, ISO-2000
could have used a faster SS to kill the slight blurring

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UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Nice work, Bob. I thought that your crew left the area when hawks showed up.

jdtonkinson Loc: Red Wing, MN

Nice catch

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

UTMike wrote:

Nice work, Bob. I thought that your crew left the area when hawks showed up.

Thanks
The birds do, but I have lizards, squirrels, field mice and tree rats show up in the yard. The lizards live there, the squirrels,mice and rats come to raid the feeders.
Sometimes a young and dumb little bird will not fly off but hide among the potted plants where the hawk can't reach them. I have seen a squirrel get in the middle of the cluster of pots and wait out a hawk also.

Once a dove hid among the pots, then when the hawk was on the far side made a break for it accelerating like hell a foot above the surface of the pool than doing a zoom up the back of the house and over the roof. The hawk was so concentrated on the dove it almost ran into the house, it couldn't zoom as easy as the dove. Looking out the glass doors I had the sight of a hawk coming straight at me then flaring and flapping like crazy with talons stretched in front to take the impact, then when it finally got reversed and turned to one side it was only about 4–5 feet from the door. I was wondering if a double pane door would stop it. Or would I have a family room full of broken glass and hawk pieces?

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

robertjerl wrote:

Coopers Hawk diving off the old swing set in our yard after a possible late afternoon snack.
Canon R7, RF 100-400 @ 259mm, 1/1000, f/8, ISO-2000
could have used a faster SS to kill the slight blurring

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

robertjerl wrote:

Coopers Hawk diving off the old swing set in our yard after a possible late afternoon snack.
Canon R7, RF 100-400 @ 259mm, 1/1000, f/8, ISO-2000
could have used a faster SS to kill the slight blurring

Awesome, Bob 🥇🥇🥇

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

What a great shot

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Manglesphoto wrote:

thanks

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

joecichjr wrote:

Awesome, Bob 🥇🥇🥇

Thanks very much

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Curmudgeon wrote:

What a great shot

Thanks a lot.

Fredstersphotos Loc: Long Island NY

Nice catch.

prcb1949 Loc: Ex Zimbabwe - Now UK

robertjerl wrote:

Coopers Hawk diving off the old swing set in our yard after a possible late afternoon snack.
Canon R7, RF 100-400 @ 259mm, 1/1000, f/8, ISO-2000
could have used a faster SS to kill the slight blurring

Nice shot of a Coopers hawk!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

prcb1949 wrote:

Nice shot of a Coopers hawk!

Thanks, Cooper really needs to keep his hawks under control. Henry or Henrietta come grocery shopping in my yard often.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Fredstersphotos wrote:

Nice catch.

Thank You

Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY

robertjerl wrote:

Coopers Hawk diving off the old swing set in our yard after a possible late afternoon snack.
Canon R7, RF 100-400 @ 259mm, 1/1000, f/8, ISO-2000
could have used a faster SS to kill the slight blurring

Great shot, Robert!