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Oh wow, what a beauty

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Really was. I waited about 20 minutes to try and get a picture of some movement, but no luck. The hawk was quite content to stay perched there.

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He was waiting for another cheeseburger to come out of the magic food hole.

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Kind of unusual to see them resting so low to the ground.

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Ive seen them on fence posts a bunch of times.

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Yeah, they'll sit on anything where they can get a good view of potential food.

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Kind of unusual to see them resting so low to the ground.

I have them all over my property all the time and have seen one sitting on a post that tall that's in my field all the time. Same one also sits on a tree branch at the start of my driveway about 7 feet off the ground, they fly off when I go by. Guess they are strong fliers who don't need the height to make a kill in the field.

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I read they like the higher vantage point to see more prey.

Around here they are usually high up. Especially at this park. There are a few radio towers and they like to perch on the cables.

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I read they like the higher vantage point to see more prey.

Naturally they do and yet that doesn't mean they won't use a lower vantage point when it suits them. There are tall trees all over around here and often in the morning when I go out they scream about me from the tops of some tall ones where they also hang out.

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I've saw one hanging around on the ground one time. I think usually they prefer it a little higher up but definitely not abnormal to be on a fence or something.

Nice perk of being an apex predator is you can go wherever you want. (Until a bunch of various small bird species decides to mob you like it's a BLM riot)

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It's on a bird house. It's basically a food vending machine.

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Pretty, but the bastard's killed six of my chickens.

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we have those here, as well. pretty badass birds.

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That's a nice shot. Some cultures think that a hawk is a sign of trouble or a bad omen. Not sure why.

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Thanks!

I had not heard that. Maybe because they prey on smaller creatures?

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Don't know. The one I know of is Vietnamese. I'll have to dig into that sometime.

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