Description

All the birds took off, all but one dove, a hawk cruised over the yard, looking for prey, it spotted the dove, it swooped down, hitting the dove so hard that it was killed instantly, it carried the ripped-up, lifeless dove and carried it near the cucumber bed, I tried to get a picture, it then took off and I got a bad photo. The dove was the first bird to be killed at the feeder. I believe it was a female Mourning Dove

Category

Predatory birds

Species

• Cooper's Hawk

Tags

• feeder
• predator
• Cooper's Hawk
• Mourning Dove
• Dove
• #Hawk