Hawks generally hang around a lot in my area of the Columbia SC burbs.
I was able to get some of a hawk or two with my P1000 on a tripod.
There is a Lowes Foods that puts up a large Christmas tree every year close by. My wife kept an eye out when one was perching and after a few times got these.
https://youtu.be/yTOifqvi3zM?si=1Vtd2lQmdGLMBaxS
https://stock.adobe.com/stock-photo/id/1305659594
https://stock.adobe.com/stock-photo/id/1305659521
https://stock.adobe.com/stock-photo/id/1305658964
Video was edited in with Final Cut. Photo post was done with Topaz AI and GIMP.
The closeups took just about every bit of zoom lens the P1000 had.
>>https://stock.adobe.com/stock-photo/id/1305658964
was incredible! Beautiful piece of work.
The video was also amazing. You felt like you could get inside the hawk’s head. Really loved it.
I keep my feeding area in a closed in corner just to discourage hawks hanging around with a different idea of dinner than mine.
30 years after my video, I’m not up to the work of keeping up the feeding area. I set up a platform at a height just under my library window so I could keep bags of birdseed, now shelled peanuts, in a box near the window. I’d just open and scoop several times a day. Then all the opening and closing finally did in the latch and we haven’t gotten the handyman to replace it, so I just set up an outdoor table and tied a small ladder to it under the next window. I drop the food onto the table and around it for the visitors who can’t climb the ladder. Means I can’t sit in an easy chair to be at eye level with the munchers, but I still check them throughout the night.
Night Visitors - Joseph Blanchard - Whimsical Foray
https://youtu.be/4Fz_w97bt4s