Hawk on friend's roof

[Boudicca]

I was visiting friends out on Rt 42 and spotted this lovely bird on the neighbor's roof.

[Peachie]

I was visiting friends out on Rt 42 and spotted this lovely bird on the neighbor's roof.

Great pic, shrandell. You must live with that camera around your neck!

[JP]

Very cool--both the bird and the picture.

[skyguy79]

Did you get the birds permission to publish its image? :duck:

Seriously, the images you caught were indeed beautiful. Kudos!

[Boudicca]

Peachie, I never leave the house without my trusty camera. I never know what might occur. If my friend's buy the house where the bird was perching, they will name it "Hawk's Lair".. :)

[CFrance]

That is such a beautiful hawk. We used to get a big one on our deck in MI that was mostly browns. Yours has black on its wings. I love the pics! I am going to send them to my resident bird-watching friends, and they will I.D. what kind of hawk it is.

Thanks for continually posting these great pictures. You have a good eye!

[graciegirl]

Shrandell, the OP who has posted many pictures on this forum of great beauty has gifted me with a 2014 Calendar with pictures from all over The villages. She is selling them and they would make a treasured gift for villagers or those who are trying to patiently wait.

[Didiwinbob]

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Just snapped this as we rode to Bluffington

[shcisamax]

In the last two days, I have come out to a pile of feathers in two different spots in my back yard. A neighbor mentioned they saw a hawk sitting on my roof earlier. They seem to be eating quite well in TV.

[gomoho]

Yep, I've had the feathers, too. Makes this hawk much less beautiful. I understand it's nature, but that doesn't mean I have to like it!

[Carl in Tampa]

Yep, I've had the feathers, too. Makes this hawk much less beautiful. I understand it's nature, but that doesn't mean I have to like it!

I'm not being confrontational with this reply, but........... I assume that you eat meat. Does that make you much less beautiful.

There is a food chain in nature. Many of the beautiful and graceful animals eat other animals lower on the food chain.

[jblum315]

I haven't seen this hawk but I saw a red-tailed hawk on neighbor's roof a few weeks ago. The small birds had all scattered. They came back after the hawk left.

[CFrance]

My bird-watching friends say it's probably a red shouldered hawk. They get one at their bird water dish in their RV park over by Venice Beach.

[DougB]

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[DonH57]

Back when we were staying in our friend's house while we doing the paper trail for purchasing our house in TV I witnessed one of those hawks swoop down by the birdcage and bring up a snake to a neighboring roof. One of those times I wished I had taken a video.

[Schaumburger]

Shrandell, the OP who has posted many pictures on this forum of great beauty has gifted me with a 2014 Calendar with pictures from all over The villages. She is selling them and they would make a treasured gift for villagers or those who are trying to patiently wait.

I have one of the 2014 calendars created by shrandell. It is a work of art! The calendar keeps reminding me of the beauty of The Villages when I am here in Chicago.

[TrudyM]

Back when we were staying in our friend's house while we doing the paper trail for purchasing our house in TV I witnessed one of those hawks swoop down by the birdcage and bring up a snake to a neighboring roof. One of those times I wished I had taken a video.

We had an eagle on the edge of our property in Mercer Island Washington. In the years it nested there we had no mice, rats or any problem vermin. When lightening struck the tree and it moved on now we have all manor of critters moving back in by the stream.

[tippyclubb]

I was visiting friends out on Rt 42 and spotted this lovely bird on the neighbor's roof.

Beautiful pictures. According to my Smithsonian Field Guide Bird book it looks exactly like a Red-shouldered Hawk.

We use to have some Cooper Hawks hanging around because of the bird feeders. More than once I would see one swoop down and snatch a bird. That was my least favorite part about feeding the birds.

[tippyclubb]

Shrandell, the OP who has posted many pictures on this forum of great beauty has gifted me with a 2014 Calendar with pictures from all over The villages. She is selling them and they would make a treasured gift for villagers or those who are trying to patiently wait.

Shrandell, I would love to have one of your calendars. Were stuck in Michigan until September and would love to look at your beautiful pictures from around TV, daily. I sent you a pm.

[Boudicca]

Thank you Tippyclubb. I replied and am thrilled with the responses to Gracie's flagrant "shout out".. Thank you all.

[Susan G]

In the last two days, I have come out to a pile of feathers in two different spots in my back yard. A neighbor mentioned they saw a hawk sitting on my roof earlier. They seem to be eating quite well in TV.

I actually witnessed one swoop out of the sky yesterday morning, grab a dove in flight and wrestle it to the ground. Feathers were falling from above like snow. Sad, but it is survival of the fittest (and fastest) I guess.

[CFrance]

I actually witnessed one swoop out of the sky yesterday morning, grab a dove in flight and wrestle it to the ground. Feathers were falling from above like snow. Sad, but it is survival of the fittest (and fastest) I guess.

I believe you are right when you say survival of the fastest. We had a hawk on our deck in MI frequently. He wasn't even afraid of the dog. My husband had a bird feeder on the deck that attracted the hawk, but the birds would scatter into the tree next to the deck (thick with many intertwined branches), and he could not get to them. But every year we would find what looked like dove feathers in another part of the yard by a pine tree where the doves nested.

One year the condo association decided to remove certain trees that the builder had put too close to the house, and ours was one of them. No more place for the birds to scatter to, and we removed the bird feeder.