The red tails are enormous out here and scare the poop out my chickens
yeah, a few years ago, we were having work done in the yard.. pretty much had a small bobcat in there ripping up all of the old flower beds, cleaning up a bunch of old crap, getting rid of tons of sumac we have always growing, so on and so on...
well, it was a hectic day for the small animals that call our yard home for sure, when out of no where, this big ass red tailed hawk swoops down, grabs a squirrel, and flies off with the poor thing.. was crazy watching it fly off with a squirrel between it's talons..
i was fishing at a local water hole a few years ago, and was watching another red tailed hawk circling above, over the lake, when all of a sudden, the thing dive bombs, goes under the water, and a few seconds later i see it flying off with a fish.. one of the coolest things i've seen tbh.
we have small pond in the yard as well, and last year we got home and our neighbor told us that we had a huge blue heron hanging out on our roof. a day or two later we came home and the thing was knee deep in the fish pond.. we late the dog out and she chased it up into a big oak tree, and she must have stood jumping up at this big ass bird that was about 100 feet up in the tree for a good 5 minutes before it flew away.. it returned a few more times last year, but knock on wood, well, i don't even wanna say it an jinx myself, lol..