Cooper's Hawk chases & catches birds in Slow Motion
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Cooper's hawk in action. The raw footage was recorded in 180fps slow motion over a 3 hour period between 1pm and 4pm. The Hawk has been highly active since a large flock of hundreds of Pine Siskins showed up recently. "Normal speed" footage is here: • Cooper's Hawk Extra Fo... which also includes extended footage. Watch it if you think that bait was used.
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Here is another slow motion Cooper's Hawk video ua-cam.com/video/5oc4WtW0J6A/v-deo.html
Cooper's Hawk chasing and capturing a House Sparrow in 360° ua-cam.com/video/ggssuJ9OrgQ/v-deo.html HD panned version of the 360 footage ua-cam.com/video/5hBTlJs_HZg/v-deo.html
This is some of the most spectacular footage I have ever seen, the slow motion really captures the agility of a Cooper's hawk, it's an accipiter or true hawk, they primarily hunt other birds. You can really see the strength of the hawk's wings, as it flaps to use as much air as possible to stay airborne, then using its long tail feathers to steer, what's more amazing to me was to see the hawk manoeuvre in such a small and narrow space, this bird is quite the hunter and flyer.
To people who say this is hard to watch, would you rather watch the hawk starve? I think not.
My guess is both would be hard to watch.
@@Grateful2Exist Agreed.
Ps: I'm from the city of trees, Sacramento, CA!
@@sirbader1 Hey me too! My friend saw a Cooper's Hawk in Natomas, that's how I ended up on this video. So many raptors in the Sacramento area!
@@Grateful2Exist Yup! I'm at Sailor Bar in Fair Oaks right now, theres a ton of Red Shoulder Hawks out here. Hey do you know where the Bald Eagle nest is? Its on a street called Snowberry in Orangevale/Folsom, you should check it out.
@@sirbader1 Yes, I visited the eagle nest a few times actually! I also got a great view and pics of a red-shouldered hawk at the pond at Sailor Bar! They're beautiful!
Small world!
Smart Raptor, stays close to where its prey feeds
Feeder stations like this one can help hawks, especially immature birds like this young Cooper's hawk, get through the winter when more than half of them starve to death. They take proportionately few feeder birds overall, and are a fantastically beautiful bird to observe. I do love the doves, cardinals, jays, juncos, and song sparrows that come to my feeders during the winter. But I am also happy to provide a first-year Cooper's hawk to survive the harsh northern winter. Unlike feral cats, they are a native species and they can always use a hand. There are far fewer Cooper's hawks than there are mourning doves.
There's far fewer mourning doves than there were the year before. Mourning doves are in serious decline in western United States. Some humans think they sound intelligent but they're blinded by their astounding ignorance.🙄
Great material. They move so fast sometimes it's hard to tell what happens. Thanks for preparing and posting.
I just had a male drill a mourning dove off my feeding station this afternoon here in Upper Michigan. Had to check the net to ID - usually I have merlins or goshawks doing the deed - the red eyes are a striking ID characteristic. The Cooper's pinned the prey on the ground by the feeders and enjoyed a gourmet feast right in front of my bay window. My bird feeding station is . . . versatile. Happy birding all - Thanks for the video!
James, I have a broken foot female Collard Dove, and the Male harasses her all day, poor thing flops around on 1 foot, this happened almost 6 months ago. have tons of Doves, Mourning & Collard and their Babies or should I stress Juveniles, couple Left from California Fire last year. They are fun to watch, iridescent & red Eyes. I bet Michigan is gorgeous, My bucket list to visit, maybe next year . Thanks for watching my friend.😊✨
Y’all created him a buffet😳😁
They built a hawk feeder.
Hard to watch the hawk take a siskin but that is just how nature works. Outstanding footage. Well done.
Thanks, Its crazy, he usually flies over and sits patiently for the 100-150 Siskins and Goldfinches to show up, I know he eats about 3 a day, his smorgasbord, feathers flying all over when he's done. Big Appetite.
@@bayareabirds3217 they are really smart animals. He has worked out where there is an endless, easy supply of food.
If we left nature to it's own devices, those hawks would have been extinct long ago. Human intervention saved those hawks, unfortunately they're doing the exact opposite for songbirds.
Fantastic. Thanks for posting. Too bad they can't be programmed to only take out starlings and house sparrows.
You've set up a nice fully stocked grocery store for that hawk. He is not going anywhere!
Thank you for sharing this amazing footage. The music is perfect. I adore birds of prey and, frankly, that’s why I feed the rest of the birds. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy all of the birds that visit us but in my home, a house sparrow is “hawk food.” Again, thank you for this brilliant footage. Also gave me some nice patio shade ideas.
1:29 That bird never even saw it coming. Never even flapped its wings when torn off the bird feeder.
These birds are very crafty at staying hidden until the last nano second.
I saw a gray coopers hawk hit the ground in front of some shrubs and run into them outside a building in town the other day but could not see if it caught what it was after. I had to keep moving with traffic.
That's because the songbird was already dead and placed there for a staged video.
I just learned of these birds last year when one dive bombed our bird feeder. It pretended like it would land on the ground but then went strait up past the bird feeder 10 feet off the ground but came up empty handed. It landed in a near by tree where I could get a good look at it. After that I searched and searched pics on the web to find out what kind of bird it was. I may have seen one unknowingly in my lifetime but red tailed hawks are more common here. Once you start looking for them though I've seen more especially driving a truck for a living.
On the road all day you see a lot of birds. I've also noticed more Sparrow Hawks since I'm on the lookout for them now.
Amazing footage
My heart bleed out to see this but moments like these actually make us feel how raw and real natural world is 😳😳
Great documentation of chasing activities 👍
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Wow India, love the food my friend. Thanks for watching, and your right its pretty raw and gnarly.. You should hear the gut wrenching shrills from the birds when the Coopers Hawk makes an entrance, talk about an entrance, I wished he would grab a Squirrel instead of my precious birds, do yell about India love the wild life and birds of India. Used a few camera , slow motion, 4k and HD to capture that footage. We are so blessed.😀👍😁😃
I had a Cooper's hawk fly in, twirling through the air to grab a bird I was feeding just a few inches away from my face. It was like watching an F-16 fly by. Then it landed on a tree stump thirty feet away and opened it up like a pomegranate. Unbelievable speed and coordination.
This is amazing footage and to see how hawk gets the little birds. Hope they don’t prey on your backyard birds on regular basis. I like the various bird feeder setup. Do the squirrels get to the bird feeder too? I have a pergola in my backyard. So this looks like a very nice idea to set up some bird feeders. 😊
Great video. Thanks.
Wow great footage, Well this video conveniently confirms everything I was searching for, type of hawk and method of attack. I too live in the Bay Area, and this afternoon saw a hawk standing on a morning dove after an attack. I had seen the hawk roosting before and wasn’t sure how he made the kill; I always assumed it was from a high altitude soaring, but I guess they can hunt while perched too. Although, I wish it got the squirrel that keeps digging my plants. Thanks for sharing, Sub’d from Bezerkeley.
Had a bird feeder for over a year and just saw a short tailed hawk catch a mourning doves. Felt bad for them since they always visit (like 14 on average). But also felt glad that I saw the hawk get some food too. It happened so fast and I thought all the doves flew away (I sometimes see one left after a bunch scatter at the same time). It happened so fast I couldn't see what happened. It's sad but also remind myself it's the circle of life since I also eat meat too.
Also love your bird setup btw. Been thinking about putting umbrellas by my feeders for shade and the bird bath (but then the solar bird bath won't work) and it'd be a pain to put away for hurricanes
Seen this happen a couple streets over from me and nothing I could do to save the little birdie. Luckily, I have tons of bluejays that nest around my yard and get along with most of my other backyard birds that come to my feeders and the jays do a pretty awesome job protecting the area!
Brilliant setup!
Are you sure it's not a sharp shinned hawk . ? . Nice video buddy😊
Young Coopers hawks look a lot like a sharp skinned hawk
Awesome video
Gosh he didn't see him at all...
The songbird was already dead. These are staged.
Awesome!!!
huh at least ur feeding all the birds
dang
Sharp shinned hawk
How did you kill the birds and left those poor birds there for Hawks ?
Just to have some views ?
Why were the two she caught dead already?
A juvenile coopers hawk
Not Really Juvenile Coopers Hawk has vertical stripes, this is an adult, Horizontal Stripes, great observation. Thanks for watching..😃😁👍😀
Awesome creature, i love to see them catching bluejays, because they are bullies of my feeders, and chase off all my little songbirds. So when bullies get bullied, my heart sings vengeance and karma by nature
I have a separate feeder for bluejays. I have tree stumps with food on them for the little guys and the jays get peanuts about 15 feet easy from the stumps. By the time they've had their peanuts, they're nice at the stumps to check the rest out. They also chase crows away which protects the smaller guys.
@@sincerely-b I have to scare away jays so littles can eat, they are so precious, and so paranoid of everything it makes me heart want to be protective of them, same as any small creatures, hummingbirds especially, I put out extra for them, them big birds always get something because I'm on a farm, the point is not to let the hog everything, it's not like I'm cutting them out ffs
This is one of the repercussions of having a bird buffet laid out like this. It becomes a buffet for killer birbs as well. I've come to accept what is ultimately nature at work unless its a house cat.
No music or sound effects needed.
Dead bird set up
folks, besides my already high love of all birds, I have a new reason to get feeders
Feeding him with dead birds..
This is what happens when you set up an unnatural bird feeding operation.
stealthy
And a Juvenile to boot. Already a good hunter.
Great footage. But you need more feeders.
The entire setup is one hawk feeder. 😆
i hate hawks.... anytime im near n see hawks attackin birds i chase them away.....they can chase n catch lizards n snakes or coachroaches not chickens chicks, doves, finches
That's not how nature and survival works. You shouldn't "hate" any animal for doing what it takes to survive. They evolved to hunt what sustains them. Accipiters are bird hunters.
They kill way fewer birds than outdoor cats!
Most of the birds on these feeders will be house sparrows who chase the finches away. House sparrows do more harm to a bird population than the Cooper’s hawk will.