Red-tailed hawks have came by my cameras a lot to eat some of this fresh meat. I've captured them eating dead deer, as seen in Deer for Dinner: Food Fights.
I captured this type of hawk recently again, but this time it was in Leesburg, Virginia.
The fields, meadows, and woods of Leesburg offer some prime hawk hunting grounds.
Red-shouldered hawks, red-tailed hawks, cooper's hawks, broad-winged hawks, and sharp-shinned hawks populate the skies here.
What really surprised me at this camera set though, was how quickly the hawk came in to eat after I set out the bait. I placed the meat here at 3:08 PM as I had the camera rolling (as I realized when I got my picture taken doing so). The first hawk picture (as seen above) was taken at 3:11 PM on the same day.
That's only 3 minutes!
What is even more surprising is knowing the fact that it took me at least 2 minutes to walk back to my car (located maybe 30 yards away), set my gear down, and pull out of the parking space. If I was there for another 60 seconds, I may have been able to view this hungry hawk first-hand, but I didn't know it was there in the first place.
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