Wow, if that's all at the same time, it looks like the hawk's first intention was to spook the finch so that it would leave the feeder for an easy catch when it came back around. If you can hear him at times, there's an app I use in the summer that's pretty good at listening for and ID'ing birds. It's called Merlin. It also makes recordings as it listens. I had a huge hawk above my head in our tree a couple of years ago and didn't know it until I walked further into the yard and it swooped down over my head to land right in front of me on the fence. A rabbit had been hiding and, instead of staying safely where it was, it ran out. The rabbit escaped, but the hawk did try. That was quite the experience to be standing in the middle of all of that. And before the hawk swooped to the fence, I had been watching a woodpecker clucking like a chicken in the tree, far above the hawk (that was right over my head). I guess he was warning others.
That was a great experience you had being in the moment with the hawk and rabbit. I use Merlin also. The day my camera caught that hawk on video that Merlin app identified a Red Shouldered Hawk and a Red Tailed Hawk in our neighborhood. This hawk was smaller that either one of those two so maybe it was a juvenile, or maybe a Sharp Shinned Hawk. Thanks for watching and the comment.
@@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644 Going by what Merlin said and tail/eye colors, it seems like what we see of the eyes and the tail would be like a Red Tailed Hawk going from juvenile, like you said, to adult. I'm no expert by any means, but it almost seems like the thing that makes sense (or not lol). Then I saw that you can check the way it flies and its shape in flight. It's a puzzle for sure. :) Maybe it'll come by again for the camera.
@@TruthWillSetYouFree832 I like your theory about the hawk setting up the finch for a second pass. I didn't see any feathers in the yard so I don't know if the hawk was successful or not on that occasion. Over the last few weeks I have seen rabbit fur and feathers in the general area of the bird feeders so I know something gets a meal from time to time.
Wow, if that's all at the same time, it looks like the hawk's first intention was to spook the finch so that it would leave the feeder for an easy catch when it came back around. If you can hear him at times, there's an app I use in the summer that's pretty good at listening for and ID'ing birds. It's called Merlin. It also makes recordings as it listens.
I had a huge hawk above my head in our tree a couple of years ago and didn't know it until I walked further into the yard and it swooped down over my head to land right in front of me on the fence. A rabbit had been hiding and, instead of staying safely where it was, it ran out. The rabbit escaped, but the hawk did try. That was quite the experience to be standing in the middle of all of that. And before the hawk swooped to the fence, I had been watching a woodpecker clucking like a chicken in the tree, far above the hawk (that was right over my head). I guess he was warning others.
That was a great experience you had being in the moment with the hawk and rabbit. I use Merlin also. The day my camera caught that hawk on video that Merlin app identified a Red Shouldered Hawk and a Red Tailed Hawk in our neighborhood. This hawk was smaller that either one of those two so maybe it was a juvenile, or maybe a Sharp Shinned Hawk. Thanks for watching and the comment.
@@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644 Going by what Merlin said and tail/eye colors, it seems like what we see of the eyes and the tail would be like a Red Tailed Hawk going from juvenile, like you said, to adult. I'm no expert by any means, but it almost seems like the thing that makes sense (or not lol). Then I saw that you can check the way it flies and its shape in flight. It's a puzzle for sure. :) Maybe it'll come by again for the camera.
@@TruthWillSetYouFree832 I like your theory about the hawk setting up the finch for a second pass. I didn't see any feathers in the yard so I don't know if the hawk was successful or not on that occasion. Over the last few weeks I have seen rabbit fur and feathers in the general area of the bird feeders so I know something gets a meal from time to time.
Leave me a comment if you know what kind of hawk or raptor that is. Or if you think it isn't even a raptor. lol. I'd like to know.