Ok I was so excited in my earlier post that I left a few things out. At the end of the session with Susan Smith we were sitting sharing space with the horses when a Cooper's Hawk passed by. She/he landed on the fence post long enough to say hello & flew off to hunt the open lot behind my property. Susan & I were able to watch her as she hunted. She scared up a large group of smaller birds. I am sure she got lunch there but they were far enough away I didn't see for sure. Cooper's Hawks & Sharp Shinned hawks are quite common they are very similar small hawks. The sharp shinned is about the size of a dove. The Cooper's is a bit larger. They are difficult to identify from each other when seen individually in the wild. Still quite Awesome to see in my back yard. Susan has said she will have videos soon!!!! I am so excityed that she captured todays work on video!!!! Got to sleep now I a, going riding tomorrow with Dacodah in San Acaia!!! Getting ready for the New Mexico centennial ride!!!
Very cool!We had a sharp shinned hawk get tangled up in our bird netting on top of our chicken coop two years ago. I don't know what it was planning to do with our chickens, because they were bigger than she was, but we do sometimes get smaller birds that fly into our coop to raid the chicken's grain and scratch mix. It was such an awesome experience to rescue that little hawk by pulling it free of the netting. Then we wrapped him in a towel and we all got a close look and admired him. Soon afterwards, I released him into the air and it was exciting watching such a beautiful wild creature fly off.
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