2 years ago I was sitting 20 feet up in an oak tree while bow hunting for deer. A large red tailed hawk landed in a tree beside me with the still alive snake in his claw. HE/she gave me the evil eye as he/she casually would lean over and take a bite out of the snake.. That same year I was again hunting when a grey squirrel spotted me sitting up in his tree. HE sat on a tree limb barking away for about 5 minutes when suddenly a large red-tail swooped down and grabbed the squirrel by the shoulders and carried him down through the woods. My first thought was “bark now blast you”.
One year we had a family of red-tailed hawks nest in the pine tree next to my house. It was glorious. The hawks served as an invisible force-field over the garden. That year was the first year we were able to pull a harvest out of our garden unrobbed by squirrels and birds.