Hawks

One way to keep the field rodents down is with a hawk:

Here’s a video of it flying:


Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis,
Video by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 June 2011.

Here’s a picture from 10 August 2008 of two of them sitting on a fence:

Picture by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 August 2008.

I think these are red-tailed hawks, Buteo jamaicensis, like the ones in these pictures by Brad Bergstrom.

-jsq