Late this morning, I looked out of our kitchen window together with noticed an immature Cooper's hawk inwards the side yard, seemingly lounging inwards the sunshine. Within a few seconds, however, he began to repeatedly hop into the air, twisting close equally if performing a ceremonial dance.
Grabbing my binoculars, I focused inwards on the ritual together with observed the tail feathers of a songbird poking from the grass; from what picayune I saw, I suspect it was a family finch. Interrupting his dance, the hawk would curl the carcass to ane side or the other together with and then resume his antics. Finally, later 5 minutes or so, he took the victim to a grove of pinon pines where he settled on the terra firma for a fleck earlier ascending to a limb to pluck his meal.
Large adult Cooper's hawks (especially females) oftentimes pluck together with eat their victim at the site of the kill, unconcerned that crows or other scavengers mightiness plough up. Smaller birds (males together with immatures) prefer a secluded place to bask their repast inwards peace, oftentimes taking it into a nearby tree. I'm non certain how to translate today's display; mayhap the immature hawk was simply excited to accept made a kill but he had the expect of a nervous assassin.
Grabbing my binoculars, I focused inwards on the ritual together with observed the tail feathers of a songbird poking from the grass; from what picayune I saw, I suspect it was a family finch. Interrupting his dance, the hawk would curl the carcass to ane side or the other together with and then resume his antics. Finally, later 5 minutes or so, he took the victim to a grove of pinon pines where he settled on the terra firma for a fleck earlier ascending to a limb to pluck his meal.
Large adult Cooper's hawks (especially females) oftentimes pluck together with eat their victim at the site of the kill, unconcerned that crows or other scavengers mightiness plough up. Smaller birds (males together with immatures) prefer a secluded place to bask their repast inwards peace, oftentimes taking it into a nearby tree. I'm non certain how to translate today's display; mayhap the immature hawk was simply excited to accept made a kill but he had the expect of a nervous assassin.
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