Swainson's Hawk takes a swipe at an owls nest - sequence - 1 of 5
Swainson's Hawks have one of the longest known migrations of any raptor. Wintering in Argentina, they spend their summers on the Great Plains where they mate before heading south again. On this day I saw my first Swainson's of the season and she was not a very pleasant one. In fact, she was dive-bombing a Great Horned Owl nest which of course made the female owl very upset as her little ones had just hatched. Unfortunately I failed to capture the hawk and the nest in the same frame of any of my pictures. Taken in Thornton, Colorado.
Swainson's Hawk takes a swipe at an owls nest - sequence - 1 of 5
Swainson's Hawks have one of the longest known migrations of any raptor. Wintering in Argentina, they spend their summers on the Great Plains where they mate before heading south again. On this day I saw my first Swainson's of the season and she was not a very pleasant one. In fact, she was dive-bombing a Great Horned Owl nest which of course made the female owl very upset as her little ones had just hatched. Unfortunately I failed to capture the hawk and the nest in the same frame of any of my pictures. Taken in Thornton, Colorado.