I retreated, and he perched himself on one of my now-empty shoes. Then he gave me a you-wanna-make-something-of-it look. Since he was equipped with beak and talons and all I had was a whisk broom, I beat a hasty retreat into the house.
When I re-emerged, camera in hand, he took a strategically superior position on the roof.
At that point, we called a truce.
Can anybody identify him?
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5 comments:
My guess is a Broad-winged Hawk.
And clearly he thought your shoe was carrion to eat. Probably the smell. :).
I thought red tailed hawk and still think so after entering that term in Google Images.
Red-tailed hawk. One landed on my deck when my kitten was looking out the door , luckily the screen door was shut or I would've been minus one kitty.
Definitely not a red-tail as it doesn't have the distinctive "belly band". That's an immature Cooper's Hawk. Do you have bird feeders? Coopers like to hang around places with feeders because they view it as a smorgasbord of small birds.
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