Hawk on friend's roof
 

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!

Very cool--both the bird and the picture.

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

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

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".. :)

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!

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.

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Just snapped this as we rode to Bluffington

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.