Hawk in the Back Yard

[cbseniour]

I went out this afternoon to light the grille and cook some burgers for lunch and noticed this fellow having lunch in a nearby tree.
Just thought I'd share

By the way who is going to tell me what sort of hawk this is?

 

[spencer rifle]

Coopers or sharp-shinned. Gotta have relative size and be able to see the end of the tail to be sure. Good pic.

 

[cbseniour]

Here's another

 

[littletommy]

Those are great pics! I've always assumed those are coopers hawks, as I see them here around the house a lot. In the last year or so, I've been seeing them more, as well as redtails. Last Fall, we were sitting at the dining room table watching a rabbit hop around in the yard, when a large Red tail came out of no where and grabbed it!

 

[Knife Lady]

Nice pic and thanks for sharing. If I had a decent camera I would take a pic of ours that lurks around here.

 

[monitor51]

Nice pics. I'd guess a red tail. We have a nesting pair on the other side of the creek. Really fun to watch. My wife has a chihuahua <sp> so I have to keep my eyes moving a lot. This year I've noticed a pair of mink that have taken up residence. I've seen signs of them for about a year now, finally saw both a couple days ago.

 

[eldirector]

Great pics! We have a pair of red-tails that hang out around our place. They perch on the privacy fence and watch our bird feeders. Help keep the chipmunk population in check!

 

[hooky]

That looks like the Coopers hawk that hangs out around our feeders.

 

[bradw266]

Nice picture. There is a redtail hawk that lives near where I work that likes to eat his catch up on top of one of the large lights in the parking lot. Beautiful animals.

 

[gunluvr]

When I was kid (40 years ago) we never sw birds of prey they said it was because of DDT. I love seeing them now but it appears the snakes are gone due to the birds of prey.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Is there one less chipmunk in the world? Did you a get a pic of the lunch? Looks kinda brutalized.

 

[lrahm]

They are pretty thick down here. We see them all along the highway.

 

[.452browning]

Nice pics. The area where I live is over run with birds of prey, but I dig it. There was a time where we went a decade without seeing one (it seemed like anyhow). The last two years a mating pair of owls have nested less than 50 yds. from the house in a big hollow tree. Across the woodline another 50 or so yards red tail hawks have set up camp in a big nest since the owls have gone. We have a bunch of pictures of them somewhere around the house.

 

[spencer rifle]

The angle on the tail is not good enough to be sure, but other factors point to Cooper's hawk.