Hawks usually roost where there is water and a reliable food source. Hawks are great for getting rid of rodents and snakes. An old saying from these part is that if you saw a hawk on the side of the road, it meant that fishing wasn't any good. Hawks love fresh fish.

Ditto.

Beautiful bird

Beautiful .... we have a lot of birds where we live....biggest are the black cockatoos, we have owls and kookaburras and many tiny nectar feeders like honey-eaters.

We have a mating pair of them in our neighbourhood. Last year one of them took my mourning dove mom and her babies. I saw one just this morning flying through our back yard, looking for breakfast no doubt. They are beautiful, but I don't want to see the little ones hurt either. We live in the city but on the edge of a huge protected park.

Wow, he certainly looks malevolent in that second picture! Scary, but beautiful!

Was thinking the same thing! The 2nd pic it's giving the 'evil eye', eerie

Nice picture. We live in a rural area but I very seldom see a hawk.

How fortunate for you to have seen one and so close.

In my culture it is good luck to have seen one.

Pretty. I would watch my small animals. We had a large raptor flying around our neighborhood a couple years ago. There were a couple reports of small dogs being grabbed by the bird. I can't remember what it was, but one lady did manage to get her dog back when she was able to smack the bird with a broom before the bird could get away.