Cooper's Hawk Hunts

 COOPER's HAWK HUNTS
"The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak,and stared with his foot on his prey." -Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Poet's Song"

 Cooper's Hawk was hunting in my yard, right outside the back door, yesterday. Was beautiful to watch.  Here is the entire  scene, from start to finish.  

 The hawks live here year round. They sit on the roof and hunt.  I love watching them do what they do naturally.....

 In the early 20th century the  Cooper's Hawk became endangered.

 But no more.......

 "Between two hawks which flies the higher pitch..." -Shakespeare

 Dinner....

 Standing and partaking

 The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918  gave the  Cooper’s hawk’s protection when it was amended in 1972 to include raptors, making it illegal to kill a raptor or disturb their nests. 

 "When I bestride him I soar, I am a hawk.
William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act III, scene 7, line 14.

 The hawks increased in the 1960's after a comeback. And people stopped killing them.

 Known early on as Chicken Hawks, they were thought to be pests.

 He has agility, speed, fiesty brazen attitude. He is a survivor.

 They search for smaller birds in the suburbs, or along the edge of a forest.

 Here, in Campbell River, we are in a Rainforest, so lots of opportunity.

 Looking very pleased with himself at this point. Dinner done. He left the beak and part of the head and some feathers. Love the Cooper's Hawk. One of my favourites....

Photographs 2018 Campbell River, B.C.