Another Emily Photo

[anne_d]

The Elder Daughter, out on a walk around the block this afternoon, spotted our neighborhood Cooper's Hawk taking down a pigeon. So she ran home, got her camera, came back and found him sitting over his catch. He does look fierce and majestic for such a relatively small raptor.

Comments

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

I once saw a Coops lift and fly off with a pigeon; as you can tell from this photo, pigeons are a good fraction of a Cooper's Hawk's size, so that was no mean feat.

Congratulate Emily for me!

Julia, such lovely killers, are Cooper's Hawks

[anne_d]

I'll pass your compliments on to the photographer.

Coop's a fearsome little bird; he and Shadow have staring contests. I worry, because he really would like to pick her up, all eleven pounds of her.

Hawk

[dannyjane.livejournal.com]

It's very interesting watching two predators eye each other. My ball python, Nelson, and my cat, Mr. Gladstone, used to watch each other through the glass. All things being equal, I don't know which one of them would have won. Same with the hawk. He's smaller than the cat, but fearless and armed with fierce beak and talons.

Re: Hawk

[anne_d]

It may be a mutual respect thing going on - he knows she could catch him, and vice versa. So they sit and watch each other.

[usedtobeljs]

What a great picture! It really captures predation.

[hugs]

[anne_d]

She's a truly excellent photographer, my daughter.