While I was photographing the Woodpecker in the last post, a hawk flew in up on the mountain. I’m not great at bird identification, but I think it is a Cooper’s hawk. It was very far away and raining, so the photos aren’t great. I watched it sit there for awhile, while nearby crows went crazy making a big fuss about it being around. It ignored them and preened it’s feathers, even looked at me at time or two. Then it flew to the ground. I don’t know what it did, I never saw it fly back up and I waited for as long as I could in the cold. It didn’t really fly down like they do when they are after something. So I’m not sure what it was up to. I have it going to the ground on a video clip. But it’s not a very good clip because of my shakiness, so I didn’t upload it to the video log. I can if someone is really interested in it. But it’s not that great.
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I love seeing hawks….not good at identifying them though.
Even though I don’t want them eating my songbirds, I really love seeing them. I can seldom figure out which one.