But this guy did. He stayed around for a good 10-15 minutes. Every couple of minutes he would swoop to the ground and grab something and eat it. According to a bird lady, probably a frog. It was raining for the first time in several weeks.
For some reason the embeds are tiny. Have a link to the video on Youtube.
My Moms place is filthy with these guys . They spook pretty easy and shortly after I took this it was gone!
Good catch. Deer around here are gone long before you get a camera out.
BTW nice vid of that hawk. Don't see anything much like that around here.
Wow! Just skinks and anoles here, oh and a turtle every now & then.
Wow! You sing really well while shooting video!
Neat!
We had a Coopers Hawk family build a nest in a tree at our place last year and were able to keep tabs on Baby Hawk. The big birds are intriguing to me.
I've seen hawks visiting the nest site already this spring...so maybe we'll get to follow another family.
We have a pair of red shouldered hawks that have built a nest in one of our pine trees. They are cool but quite noisy.
Crappy cell phone pic
In reply to Toyman01 :
Nice !!
What cam are you using? and more so what video editing software to post to YouTube?
Right tho, you never have a camera handy when wildlife shows up. Occasionally I get deer, turkey and hawks w/ the rest of the usual small critters in the back yard and I live in the city limits. Two deer the other night when I came home. Might hafta set up the trail cam... w/ a little bait to entice 'em.
Piff, came here looking for Big foot video.
Hiking in a local State Park last weekend, we ran into an older couple with a tripod and a *huge* lens. They invited my kids to look through the viewfinder at this:
There's a man-made nesting platform nearby, and a couple of owlets in the nest. Apparently one of the local owls is never far from the babies at this stage.
In reply to fasted58 :
The camera is a Nikon P500. Basically a fancy point and shoot with a fairly long zoom.
The editing software is Microsoft Moviemaker. It's free and it gets the job done.
This little lady met me at my mailbox for about a year and lived under the pine tree in our back yard. I ended up having her taken away though because she wanted to play like a dog with the kids and she was far to large for that. She loved having her neck stroked.
I'm not a wildlife photographer by any stretch, but I always have cameras around, and I live in the woods. Here's a few of the visitors I've captured over the years.
In reply to 02Pilot :
Very cool.
Never heard of a hawk attacking people... but it's a problem in my son's neighborhood. His wife is urging him to build an enclosure for their dogs to be alone in the back yard without being carried away.
914Driver said:Never heard of a hawk attacking people... but it's a problem in my son's neighborhood. His wife is urging him to build an enclosure for their dogs to be alone in the back yard without being carried away.
My mom is having that issue with her dogs. It's gotten to the point she can't take them outside during the day. They have literally tried to take the smallest one while she was standing right next to it
Trail cameras are the way to go. I live almost in the center of the city. This is in my back yard.
Now my sister-in-law who lives in a suburban neighborhood 5 miles out the city gets this instead.
anything that can be carried away by a hawk is not a 'dog'...it's some man made creature that can't live in the survival of the fittest animal world. Never understood the purpose/benefit/money spent on such helpless creatures.
...and the women can't leave me alone. 
onemanarmy said:anything that can be carried away by a hawk is not a 'dog'...it's some man made creature that can't live in the survival of the fittest animal world. Never understood the purpose/benefit/money spent on such helpless creatures.
SWBO (the veterinarian) does Irish Wolfhounds.
Don't tell her clients, but her opinion is that if you could kill it by sitting on it, it's not a dog. 
Stupid turkeys--
onemanarmy said:anything that can be carried away by a hawk is not a 'dog'...it's some man made creature that can't live in the survival of the fittest animal world. Never understood the purpose/benefit/money spent on such helpless creatures.
I like Ron Swanson's quote: "Any dog under fifty pounds is a cat and cats are pointless."
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