Our Friendly Hawk

Every day there is a hawk which visits our home. It lands in a tree not fifty feet from our balcony and surveys the area. The first time I noticed it was during a kill. The hawk came out of the sky very fast and landed on a small rabbit.

The kill was instant but the hawk had difficulty in trying to fly away with it's prey. It made several attempts and finally managed to get free of the ground but it took at least several hundred feet to clear the small trees . The hawk held its prey in one claw and used all it's strength to make it to a safe height above the hydro wires.

Every day since then the hawk returns to the same tree and looks around. A beautiful bird just doing what it has to do to live. There seems to be more Red Tail hawks this year but this hawk is a red shouldered hawk although I could be mistaken. It's beak looks like a falcon so I shall have to check further.