Good, he’s eating the tree rats.
One of the inevitable laws of birding. If you see a hawk circling in the distance. It is a Red-tailed hawk.
I don’t think squirrel is part of Mooch’s lunch program.
If we could get a “Spotted Owl” to camp out there for a while, we could get the Kenyan’s ass run out.
Indeed it IS a fantastic meal for them.
I was trying to get this hawk out of the road, because it wouldn't give up the squirrel and nearly got hit by a few cars (it was on a corner, and you can see him standing just inside the white line on the side) You can see how close he let me get.
I eventually decided not to push my luck, so I climbed back into the car and drove slowly right on top of it so it disappeared under my front bumper...at that point, it finally decided to fly into the woods with the squirrel carcass.
They follow me around when I’m on the tractor mowing, catching rats or anything else I scare up.
Every now and then one will land on my brush guard and ride around with me until I scare something up for it to eat.
For a few years I had an office in a historic converted wood frame house on the edge of downtown Tallahassee. My desk was next to a window that had a view of a tree branch a few feet away that was used by a hawk to eat its meals, mostly pigeons, squirrels, and rats. The hawk was such a successful hunter that it never seemed to go hungry.