Mob!

[scarlettina]

I'm sitting inside with the balcony door open. Suddenly, a raucous noise just explodes outside: crows cawing like crazy. I run out onto the balcony and see the shadows of a whole flock on the other side of the building. I grab my camera and run downstairs and out the front door. There's a murder of crows mobbing the top of a tall fir tree in front of the neighbor's yard. I stepped out into the street and then across it, trying to see what's there. Crows don't mob like that unless there's something there to mob. One of my neighbors across the street invites me up onto his garage-top deck so I can get a better look. I see some sort of predatory bird up there, but can't tell for certain what it is. A hawk of some sort circles way above, its silhouette too dark to tell details.

Then suddenly the crows scatter like fireworks and out of the tree bursts this big, beautiful red-tailed hawk. The following shots are cropped down from what I took at the extreme end of my zoom. They're not bad.






Kinda cool.

Comments

[singingnettle.livejournal.com]

Great catch!