Doo...Doo...Doo...Lookin' out my back door

[oldpink]

Well, last night while in the kitchen, mixing up some of my squeezed lemonade (oh yeah!), I glanced up and spotted a Cooper's hawk on a kill not twenty yards away in the next door neighbor's yard.
I took my camera to the back door to get a much better angle on him, but I couldn't get any stills of him because the autofocus was defeated by me shooting through the glass because I didn't want to spook the hawk off of his hard-won meal, so I switched over to video mode, which worked pretty well.
We were unsure about exactly what species he had killed, but we speculated that it could be a Mourning dove.
Either way, he was clearly one hungry hawk.

[video=youtube;DUhgEQwBcjQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUhgEQwBcjQ[/video]

 

[Bigtanker]

Your video is private. Might want to change the setting.

 

[indiucky]

Well my least favorite CCR song is now in my head all day...Thanks old pink...You realize that negates your awesome "synthetic indignation" line....

 

[Mgderf]

Look at all the happy creatures dancin' on your lawn!

 

[churchmouse]

Look at all the happy creatures dancin' on your lawn!

Ahrghhhhh.....................I hate that song...............

 

[oldpink]

Your video is private. Might want to change the setting.

Oops!
Thanks for the tip.
Fixed

 

[Woobie]

I'm glad we're seeing more of these now. Great video.

FYI, that's about what I looked like eating the jerky you gave me. Num num num....

 

[mom45]

We have had them here for quite a while. My son knocked one off of the back of one of my hens several years ago. I was impressed that it was going after something that was so much bigger than it was. I have also had them fly into my front door when chasing other birds off of my feeders. They hunt the feeders in the back yard pretty regularly. I have two redtails that are currently hunting the brush piles out back that are home to lots of smaller birds and bunnies.

 

[spencer rifle]

Had my fill of seeing them. Killed two of our chickens this fall.

 

[tetter]

Wow that is a great video

 

[SouthernStar25]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeJuUqDqY00

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

Cool video. I don't see a ton of Cooper's hawks. Lots of red tails, and almost every day to and from work I see northern harriers making strafing runs across some meadow land near work.

 

[bobjones223]

Looks like they do a good job of plucking!

Wonder if you could raise some and have a mobile plucking service? Pull up the trailer.....let the chickens walk in and when you enter 10 min later....plucked chickens!

Maybe missing a wing or two.......I know when ever I fry chicken the wings never seem to make it to the table???.....I have no idea where they go?