Last year I was deer hunting in a tree stand there wasn’t alot going on just sitting there watching squirrels running around when out of the blue a red tailed hawk flew right by my stand trying to nail himself a squirrel breakfast. I was just about to climb down and clean out my drawers when a second hawk swooped down through the pines. You never know what your gonna see when you go hunting.
We can sit on our deck or look out the windows and watch golden eagles, bald eagles, barred owls, redtail hawks, saker falcons, horned owls, and a few smaller birds of prey catch voles in the pasture below our house.
We don’t worry about our dogs, but some of our neighbors barn cats have disappeared!
The coolest thing that I have seen is the red-tail hawks changing their strategy when the pasture grass gets too tall. They skim the top of the grass flying slowly and go straight up a few feet to dive on the voles. It is not nearly as effective as their normal pounce from up high and they work hard at it!