A Coopers hawk nailed a dove right in front of me at the feeder in the back yard. By the time I got the camera he had taken it up into a tree to pluck. Their speed is simply amazing.
Cool pic. One day I'll fly one of those accipiter things.
"I do invite you to-morrow morning to my house to breakfast; after, we'll a-birding together. I have a fine hawk for the bush." The Merry Wives of Windsor, III, iii, 243.
