A friend sent me the picture, taken from his backyard. The Cooper's hawk is perched on the bird house my friend put out for the little songbirds. That mangled thing in the hawk's talons? One of the little songbirds. I wonder if he realized he would be feeding all the birds when he put up his feeders and bird house...UPDATE: I stand corrected. It's not a Cooper's hawk, but a sharp-shinned hawk. Still, an awesome display of predatory beauty...
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Actually, this guy was a sharp-shinned hawk. He is smaller than the Cooper's hawk and lacks the tuft on the back of the head. We have them come every winter time to eat our sparrows.
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