{"id":7500,"date":"2024-01-14T17:09:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T22:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/?p=7500"},"modified":"2025-02-17T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T16:15:29","slug":"the-hawk-and-a-couple-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/the-hawk-and-a-couple-squirrels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hawk and a Couple Squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was walking around the lower loch raven dam when I saw a hawk high up in the tree scrutinizing something below. I took a couple shots and waited, hoping it would fly off towards me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It did eventually take off, but straight down to the ground, so I walked across the road to check it out. I immediately came across a couple brazen squirrels just feet away. Forgetting about the hawk when the squirrels just sat there mocking me, I tried to get a closeup squirrel shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s when I saw the hawk again. He didn’t pay any attention to me, and at one point flew straight at me and landed too close for my camera to focus! I walked around with it flying about for around an hour or so until I got tired haha! I never saw a hawk so committed as it chased the squirrels (there were two I noticed) up and down the trees. It was funny, seeing the hawk on one side of the tree with the squirrel directly on the other side, seemingly toying with the hawk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a few favorites below, but if you want to see all 50 you can watch the slideshow in my Gallery here<\/a>! My favorite is the image with both critters in the same frame :-)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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