The Hawk and Dove

In our backyard on April 27, 2014, we came in the house in the afternoon and noticed something floating in the air outside the back door, What is that? It was gray feathers. Paul went quickly to the window, an seen a Sharp Shinned Hawk dive into the door of the dog house after a Morning Dove.  I went for the camera and starting clicking shots of the Hawk with the Dove clutched in his feet pulling the Dove out of the dog house. The Hawk was not able to fly because he was not much bigger than the Dove. Wings open and Dove struggling to get away. Wow! I thought I was capturing it all on camera. I thought that the action was going to go on for awhile, I decided to put the bigger lens on, and get close up shots. I placed the camera on the tripod found the flash message of “NO CHIP IN CAMERA”. What a disappointment! Although, we didn’t capture the kill, the Hawk stayed for an hour and a half, so we were able to get the camera set up, and captured pictures of the Hawks’ meal.  It was an amazing site to see, just outside our window in the back yard.