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resident at my house: Red Tail Hawk. We have 2 acres with many trees and a load of chipmonks, squriels, rabbits, mice, and even some crayfish (I don't know, but they make holes in the yard with mud around entrances and the long gone cat used to catch them).
So now we sit in the yard and watch the hawk hunt from 4 pm till dark. Thats when the resident owls take over. Don't see them but hear them when they announce a catch. All this in a very urban area.
The hawk was in a tree about 50' from where I was sitting and dove out of the tree to the ground about 30' in front of me. We checked each other out for about 2 minutes, told him he was welcome, and he then went on about his business.
Ain't nature grand.
 
Sounds like our property, except instead of crayfish, we have giant tarantulas! We have lots of Hawks around our property, along with squirrels, rabbits and dozens of variety of birds (including lots of humming birds). The one critter we have that I wish we didn't are gophers! Those little suckers make a mess of our yard and trying to control them is a losing proposition!
 
One good thing about crayfish (crawdads), I never found one in the house.
 
We have them too, at our Summer house. We call them "chickenhawks".

In the Spring, we had a nest full of catbirds in an evergreeen tree near our front door. One day while I was standing in the driveway, a hawk swoops into the tree, rips one of the baby catbirds out of the nest and flies off with it shreiking. The catbird parents went bananas and they kept attacking the hawk but were unable to stop it.

Man, I know it's nature, but that was hard to watch.
 
I've always admired Falconers, and even thought about doing that stuff myself till I darn-near lost a finger from a vicious Quaker Parrot.
 
We live in an old city neighborhood with lots of mature trees and landscaping. It's like a zoo, and we see big hawks occasionally. They are awesome to behold: swift, powerful, silent. One carried a (dead) rabbit into my back yard recently and tore it to bits, left a big pile of fur.

I would NOT want to be a small mammal in this neighborhood!

Bald eagles also nest on the Rivanna and James river near here and it's not unusual to see them when near the river. They look muscular, athletic, powerful.

Raptors: absolutely awesome. :yesnod:
 
This guy lives at the airport, he's always watching us from the top of the hangar. I've got a couple sort of in the back yard, and several others in the neighborhood here that sit on top of the street lights and signs. There are a couple of owls that go at it at night too, but I've yet to see much more than a shadow from them. Bald Eagles are all over the place too, usually see them from the airplane.


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Basil said:
The one critter we have that I wish we didn't are gophers! Those little suckers make a mess of our yard and trying to control them is a losing proposition!
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Three words....Bill Murray & Caddyshack! :laugh:
 
Silverghost said:
Basil said:
The one critter we have that I wish we didn't are gophers! Those little suckers make a mess of our yard and trying to control them is a losing proposition!
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Three words....Bill Murray & Caddyshack! :laugh:
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dynomite is about the only thing we haven't tried.
 
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