Coopertive Cooper's Hawk

[tamrock]

Saw this guy about a half hour ago walking the dogs. Looks like it's got a tiny piece of flesh on it's beak, so it must have just dined on a tasty little song bird.

 

[bearbqd]

Gorgeous! We have a place nearby where you can watch raptors migrate in the fall. It literally is a raptor highway and is amazing.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Great shot!!!

 

[Chadeaux]

Beautiful. Like the eye reflection which really brings that photo to life for me.

 

[VTColonialDigger]

That's a really cool photo of an awesome bird!

 

[Kray Gelder]

Really nice shot.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Beautiful photo!

 

[tamrock]

Here's another shot I took as it was for a moment curious of my dog Bella as she was moving around below. This hawk is a young one and as it watched Bella you could just see it's brain reaction to eyesight processing the information it was receiving on my little 7 pound dog. It was like, stay here and scan the skies for something smaller or quickly dive at that little furry thing down below. It chose to reject the info it got on Bella and began once again scanning the skies for any flock of small birds flying by that it could follow to their next feeding location and then attack one of the unsuspecting victims.

 

[Chadeaux]

Yep. That expression kinda looks like me weighing the options of me repossessing property --- or just doing a writ of execution and letting the Sheriff seize something to sell to satisfy the debt.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Awesome photo!