Can you find the critter in the above picture?
I noticed this critter resting in one of our Boxelder trees yesterday morning or perhaps it was looking for a meal ahead of the snowstorm.
This is one of several migratory birds that have stopped and visited our back yard so far this year and joins the Eastern Bluebird and Red-winged Black bird. This bird, like the afore mentioned, is beautiful, however it possesses a talent rivaled by few others and one that is truly amazing to behold - these birds capture prey from cover or while flying quickly through dense vegetation, relying almost totally on surprise. It does not bite the prey to kill but rather squeezes it repeatedly to kill it.
This is a Cooper's Hawk.
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