Cooper’s Hawk on Delaware Avenue. Paul Goldfinger photo. Dec.28, 2013. Click left to see more hawk detail. Click again for even more detail.
When the local birds stopped coming to our backyard feeders several days ago, we suspected a hawk, but we couldn’t see any in the large trees around our yard. But today we received a call from our neighbor Meredith who spotted a large hawk having lunch in a tree. I was able to get close enough for the photo, but, unlike nature photographers, I don’t have a 400 mm lens to really zero in. He seemed to be chowing down on a small animal, holding his prey with a claw while pulling it apart with his beak. The culprit stayed still for awhile until a large truck rumbled by. Meredith gets the BF Hawk-eye award for today.