A drive-by shot. The hawk had a sparrow. The Vultures were trying to take it. I didn't have my DSLR, and this is cropped.
VIEW IN ORIGINAL SIZE
Each winter, we get thousands of hawks from the north. Joke is that every fence post has a hawk... it's almost true.
Migrating raptors can be seen almost anywhere in North America, but certain sites along the shorelines of the Great Lakes,
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico are places where hawks concentrate in significant numbers.
These congregations are due to negative 'barriers', such as large bodies of water that hawks are reluctant to cross over.
Broad-winged hawks and many other hawks, falcons and kites — collectively called raptors — come our way from breeding grounds in the eastern half of North America.
They follow the Mississippi Valley down to the Louisiana coast, then take a sharp westward turn toward Texas and follow the coastline until they get to Galveston Bay.