>
> Friday afternoon, had a small hawk take a pigeon on our driveway. Was
> feeding on it just outside the kitchen window. I grabbed the Panasonic
> FZ100 for the burst capability. I believe that it was a Sharp-shinned
> juvenile. Juvenile being less than a year old.
>
> <http://www.pbase.com/pelaughlin/image/140779879>
>
> I was shooting through the kitchen window, at an angle and the window
> was not as clean as I would have liked. Plus the need to clean up the
> seed and nut residue from the bird and squirrel feeders. Did blur the
> background a bit in PS.
>
Ummmm..... I think that may be a Northern Goshawk. There's a strikingy
similar photo in "Birds of the Southwest". It has habits similar to those
of Sharp-shinned Hawks and Cooper's Hawks, and both of those have a reddish
tint to the breast plumage.
We have Northern Goshawks here in Arizona, but so far I've only ever
seen one.
Chris
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