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]
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]