They don't happen at the same frequency in Illinois as they did in Minnesota but they do happen. Today as I was working in the garden I saw a flash of a large bird swoop by, head high (not as close as the bats of Jersey but close enough), past me and go into the bushes behind me. Kept working, and didn't think much of it; until he came back, swooping even closer as he went up to the phone pole in the backyard between us and the neighbor.
He looks like a young red tail hawk or maybe a cooper's hawk.
He had grabbed a chipmunk and brought him up there to dine. A relatively neat eater he snapped and stretched his meal dropping very little. The only remains I could find on the driveway below him was an organ - heart or liver or stomach. The rest he either ate of took with him.
Love those national geographic moments.
He looks like a young red tail hawk or maybe a cooper's hawk.
He had grabbed a chipmunk and brought him up there to dine. A relatively neat eater he snapped and stretched his meal dropping very little. The only remains I could find on the driveway below him was an organ - heart or liver or stomach. The rest he either ate of took with him.
Love those national geographic moments.
