**BE WARNED… this one is going to get gruesome y’all. Raptors
look as raptors do because raptors do what raptors do. They kill
things daily. They look fierce because that brow ridge protects
their precious eyes during all manner of prey related
entanglements. That down-curved bill tapering to a point makes
short work of anything that resembles flesh. “they look so
regal…” “they look so dignified and proud…” “they look so cool”
A young Cooper’s Hawk with a pre-plucked and prepared meal from
its parents. At Sutro Heights, a 13 year old male Redtail finds
yet another meal. Red-shouldered Hawks at the Palace of Fine
Arts got accustomed to catching pigeons for a living. A Red-
shouldered Hawk with a Pigeon at the Palace of Fine Arts. Caught
by the leg and the wing, a Pigeon goes for a ride courtesy a
Red-shouldered Hawk. The mobbing Crow caused the hawk to drop
its prey and the Pigeon swam to shore and survived. A Red-
shouldered Hawk goes fishing! The first photographic
documentation of this behaviour. An Osprey ta