Backyard Hawk

SeaBreeze

SeaBreeze

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Here's a picture of a red-tailed hawk that was in my backyard. Taken with my pocket camera, a Pentax Optio 4 megapixels.

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Thanks guys. :) I went outside one day and saw one taking off from one of my trees with a snake hanging out of his mouth, looked like a small bull snake, or just a plain garden snake.
 
I worry about my cat sometimes, he weighs 10.8 pounds but he's a little guy, tasty nugget. :playful:
 
Oh gosh, watch your kitties! With hawks, vultures, and other assorted birds of prey around my area, I did see a horrible sight a few years back!!. A hawk or vulture ? had snatched up a black cat over the back of a neighbors house and was headed back to some tall pine trees. Made me sick!!!! Watched helplessly until it was out of sight. I don't know who's cat it was, but I recall a woman asking some other neighbors around if they had seen her cat.
I think about my 25 lb. bichon mix dog out there . and think nah .. they can't pick him up..?? My 110 lb. lab seems safe .. well until some black bears come around.
 
A hawk, I don't know what kind, sat atop a tall tree outside my property. I watched him for sme minutes, my back yard full of birds, mostly doves' when suddenly he flew. I thought he was going away but when the sun was behind him, he turned and dived, catching a dove which he took to a pine tree in my back yard, and ate it.
 
The hawks where I live are mostly Red Tailed Hawks, although some of them don't show a red colored tail. I watched one morning as one flew from one of my spruce/pine trees with a small garden snake in his mouth. It was something to see. Last week I saw a hawk swoop down on something in the weeds at the park, he stopped with it on a fence post, looked like a rodent, then took off with it high into a tree.
 
Hawks are known to take their prey up high then dropping it to kill it then it's meal time. I would never leave a small pet out if birds of prey were in the area.
 
We had two hawks in our backyard. After they had their fill of squirrels and rabbits, they moved on. They were here for about 3-4 months.

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Nice photo Oldman, I've never had more than one at a time in my yard.
 

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