Just had fun with a red shouldered hawk in my back yard.

Well, there's a pair of hawks who are nesting in a huge live oak about 150 yards behind my house. I started a thread weeks ago when one of them chased a Eurasian dove smack into my hurricane fence and landed on my fence about 15 yards from me, then continued chasing it. It was pretty cool.

I thought it was a goshawk since I don't know much about them, but the OB hawk experts set me straight. Today I looked up hawks and discovered they're red shouldered hawks by listening to their calls on a website. I got my Bluetooth speaker out and my binoculars and went in the back yard to see if they'd come to the call.

Well, I set it on the table in the yard, found one in the tree with my binos, and hit play. After about 5 seconds of calling, it jumped from the tree and made a bee line for me. I was watching through my binos, but I wish I would have filmed it. He landed in my oak tree and started calling back non stop. He's still out there calling after 20 minutes and the other one is in the other big oak tree calling also. I think I got them kinda riled up.

Anyway, I got a good close up look at it with the binos. The one in the other tree has alot more red and looks larger.

Raptors are awesome.