We have noticed an agile small hawk buzzing around the woods over the last month or so and when we finally got a good look it turned out to likely be this Sharp-shinned Hawk.
These small hawks are very agile fliers and able to ambush their main prey, unfortunately small songbirds, in dense woods. So the next time I see what looks like a hawk streak by in the woodlands nearby I’ll have a good idea who it is.
nature has no boss 
What an alert looking bird. Great capture
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Hi Miriam, This guy was probably on the prowl and indeed very alert as it was dinner time that evening. Wishing you a wonderful weekend.
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You too Mike.
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Thanks we do plan on having a great weekend.
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As Miriam said, an alert hawk, and I pity the songbird caught by that beady eye…
Thanks, Mike, and have a great weekend!
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Hi there, hope the weekend is going well. That is indeed one intense look an awe do suspect this bird was involved with the disappearance of one female robin in the yard sitting on her nest and perhaps for injuring her mate who we have aptly named scar belly for the large wound he sustained.
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Wouldn’t want to be a chipmunk near this little guy!
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Wish he was big enough to help with the squirrels.
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Oh, yes, nature red in tooth and claw…shame we cannot all eat grass.
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Yes it is curious how life works creatures eating each other to keep on living. Yet when you drill down far enough in the end the predator and prey (and plants are prey) cycle works quite well when no disturbed.
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Sharpys and Cooper’s hawks think our backyard water feature is a bird feeder. Thanks for the great picture of this small hawk!
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HI, kind of like the lions hanging out at the watering hole on the savanna in Africa i bet.
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