Originally Posted by
westtexducks
I bet that was a sight to see watching that bird pluck a squirrel right out of the sky in mid flight to the next tree. Again really cool to be using a hawk to hunt with.
It was her best flight on squirrels yet. She was a couple of trees behind me when I spotted it so I ran to the base of the tree & could hear my bird's bells as I was running, letting me know she was on her way. As I got to the tree I looked up just in time to see her crash into the squirrel mid air & helicopter to the ground. Wish I could have gotten a photo of it!
The one downer was the squirrel ended up giving her a pretty good bite to one of her toes. I got it cleaned up, hit it with antibiotic & it doesn't look too bad but she'll be grounded for a couple of days to heal.