Death From Above

[Spiel]

Yesterday while saying good bye to my Daughter out on the front lawn a Hawk came swooping low over us from over the roof and landed across the street in the neighbours driveway. It did have something in it's talons and this morning I discovered just exactly what it was. The only thing left of the Pigeon in my backyard was it's feather's and wings.
A few doors down the street is a Pigeon coop which does allow for both Cooper's and Sharpies to often be seen hunting them and I've seen them in action numerous times, both are incredibly agile predators on the wing and while I can't be 100% certain I do believe given its size that this one yesterday was a Cooper's Hawk. 

This is as close as I let my daughter get (cell phone picture) so as not to spook the bird off her meal.



This is what she left behind in my backyard ......

 

[Barry Willis]

I see falcons everyday out back here and quite often after pigeons. Same thing here Spiel, there is one guy that has several pigeons and a few blocks farther is another.

A couple summers ago he lost a pigeon and was going door to door offering three hundred bucks to the person who could find it's location.

A little over 20 years ago my neighbor and I jumped in his van for a B.C. bass fishing trip and noticed a falcon after a pigeon near the top of the grain elevators a block away. This carried on for about ten minutes and believe it or not the pigeon won and the falcon left the area. 

Edited November 14 by Barry Willis

[Headhunter]

Common occurrence here at the house in Scarborough. Not unusual to find Dove parts on my front lawn. Pretty cool to watch when they zoom in and start the case.

HH