I have never thought that I will be seeing so many and different birds in our residential area. The ugly concrete blocks of flats attract only pigeons,seagulls and jackdaws. However, being in a suburbs, we are close to the woods and there my guess is where all the raptors are hiding. They appear almost at the same time in the sky causing chaos among the other birds. First sign is flock of pigeons suddenly lifting up and flying to and fro. And the shrieking seagulls who not only warn but chase the raptors, a behaviour that was strange to me. I read that it is called mobbing and even small birds can mob bigger ones in protection of their territory.
It is hard to make a decent photo of the hawk or buzzard when they are hovering high above. Relying only to be on the right spot at the right time when the bird is within the range of my lens. And by far, these are probably the best photos I have of a hawk. The bird was not very high and I got some details.
The thing is that the hawk made few circles before flying away. And it is fast, I can tell you.
When I see the hawk I think about how well this bird can see what is on the ground. An eye of a hawk. I wonder if the bird sees me with the camera pointed at the sky following it.
I may have a chance to see it much closer. I wish to be able to get more details.
What surprised me is that each day hawks and buzzards hover above our area and sometimes we see bigger raptors who might be eagles. I have no photo of eagle yet, but that would be a nice addition to my photo collection.
Thank you for viewing.
