Hungry Red-tailed Hawk

[BC]

I was watching the feeders at High Park when an immature Red-tailed Hawk launched an ambush. They're not really built to get through thick brush quickly and the attack was neither successful nor elegant.

[Raven11:11]

Definitely hungry and / or inexperienced - see my other post about a hawk taking and then eating for 20 min's in our backyard - a Mourning dove last week ..... all when there are 300+ pigeons across the street and 500 feet away in large 1000 bird flocks daily.  

This 1 was young and looked skinny.  He ate every single morsel on this FAT AND EXTREMELY WELL FED DOVE.   ALL THEY DO IS EAT, REST AND ENJOY PEACE & QUIET IN OUR YARD. i HAVE MANY PICS i CAN SEND YOU, IT TOO COMOPLIKATED TO ADD THEM HERE, AND I AM DUMB (worked in the IT and website design , serch engine optimization field 7 past years) but they need to make it easier. still

Looks like many of these young birds are getting desperate.

[BIGFRANK]

Its very normal for the young birds to be poor hunters and try things adults would never do. Its quite funny to watch sometimes. We watched a juvie Coopers run around on the ground around a tree chasing a squirrel. Have seen squirrel walk out on a branch and sniff a juvie Redtails back,taunting it and the young Redtail try to run through the tree after it. As with most predators they are very unsuccesful a very high percentage of the time...even adults.

[Bluffs Birder]

Here's a Red-tailed Hawk story that was in the Toronto Star this morning.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/911734--pigeons-under-attack-in-moss-park

Walter

[Raven11:11]

I too have witness a brazen hawk downtown on queen street  - it was totally unafraid of anything.