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Only one I saw score in the air was after a Flicker in the forest, and the Flicker was well aware of being chased. Still, it did not have the moves to make an escape as the hawk matched every bob and weave.

We have Coopers, Sharp Shin, and the Goshawks come through every day. The Coopers are near suicidal smacking into the house or windows as they give chase. Had one knock himself out a couple years back when both the quail and hawk hit the window. The quail died on impact, and hawk came to about 5 minutes after the collision. Cookie snapped a picture or two while I had it in hand. If one looks closely, he can see her reflection in the bird's eye.


Another Coopers that scored a quail in the back yard.


And here's a back yard Sharp Shin. They're about the size of a skinny pigeon, and mostly run down smaller song birds. They will get after things up to quail or Eurasian dove size though. Not seen them take on the bunnies.

All of our back lot fowl have to keep a sharp eye out. If one looks out and there are no birds about, there's a hawk somewhere.