What are YOU looking at?
I had put the oriole feeder back up and was walking down through the yard when a loud series of squawks rang out . It was rapidly followed by this juvenile Cooper's hawk being chased by a house finch. I actually ran to the house, picked up the binoculars, ran back for the camera and he was still in the tree and still getting yelled at by the finch who was circling the tree at a safe-ish distance. The finch was accompanied by other finches and chickadees neither of whom were dumb enough to get within eating distance of this bird eating raptor. He stayed about 15 minutes. Time enough to calm down from his harrowing experience and enough time for me to figure out the best angle to not get him with a pine cone in his face.
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