Hawk

[gb6491]

Thanks for the comments folks!

Bill and BEARDOG, those are outstanding photos (and impressive birds)! Thanks for sharing them

Darn, that should be Cyber-shot DSC-WX150 not Cyper...sorry about that

Regards,
Greg

[jeepster09]

Sad that hawks eyes make them look so mean and hateful all the time. I'm sure they are very pleasant and content waiting for everything to die so they can eat it. Maybe I got that mixed up with Vultures. I hate vultures.

That last pic is a Ptarmigan isn't it? Note the not so mean eyes. Pretty bird.

Are you dissing my friends...... You ever got a head in the mail.....jus sayin!

[Bawanna]

That's hands down the ugliest bird I ever laid eyes on. Please send that to Jocko, I ain't hanging that on my wall with all the equines.

[getsome]

Love those Hawk pictures....thanks....Funny story about birds....My mother in law was in the hospital with a lung infection and pneumonia and not doing very well and we went to see her in ICU....The room was on the 7th floor and had a really big picture window overlooking the woods out back and there on the window ledge were 2 huge Buzzards just hanging out looking over the parking lot....I thought for a second, YES Thank you God!!!... No such luck, she still lives...

[berettabone]

Nice pictures....................we have a lot of them up here in freezeville. They get scary large up here. Last year, I had one sitting on my fence, with 4 squirrels all frozen in place. Two on the shed roof, and two on the fence. No one moved for about 5 minutes until I opened the door. The hawk gave an obligatory swoop at one of the squirrels on the shed roof, and left. I can't understand why he didn't just get one of them. Maybe it's because we have lots of small birds in the area, and they're less hassle to catch. Maybe hawks have a bit of worry about getting injured getting a squirrel versus a bird. Maybe they are easier to catch. Watched one last year in the back yard, down a small bird in about 2 minutes. All it left was a small ring of feathers. No bones about it.

[muggsy]

I believe in the wise use of our natural renewable resources. I'm a conservationist, not a preservationist. I'm also a native American, born right hear in Cleveland, Ohio. Ya can't get much more native American than that. I'm not real big on ceremonial feathers unless they're being held by a fan dancer. But that's just me.

[yqtszhj]

Thanks for the post Greg. I love those birds. There are a lot around our place here.

Once when driving down the road with the daughter in the car we saw a hawk flying overhead with a snake in it's talons. The snake was still wiggling. Another time we were at the park near the river a few miles from the house and watched one for 30 minutes chasing squirrels around. too bad it never caught one.

Downtown on top of my office building there is a microwave tower. There is a hawk that sits on top of the tower eating it's lunch regularly. We find the pigeon wings below in the courtyard. Evidently the hawk doesn't like wings.