Cooper's Hawk

1/400s at f8.0, ISO:2000, Canon EOS-1D X, EF800mm+1.4x III converter


This image of the Cooper's hawk and the next 2 images you are looking at had just killed a songbird. No he is tearing it apart and eating it. Cooper�s Hawk, a medium-sized hawk of the woodlands. It hunts by stealth, approaching its prey through dense cover and then pouncing with a rapid, powerful flight. Of the three bird-eating Accipiter hawks, Cooper's is the mid-sized species and the most widespread as a nesting bird south of Canada. It feeds mainly on medium-sized birds, in the size range of robins, jays, flickers. It also eats many small mammals, such as chipmunks, tree squirrels, ground squirrels, mice, bats. Sometimes eats reptiles, insects.
Boulder County, CO
 
06/28/2021