This immature Coopers hawk is a specialist for the most part. It hunts small birds of all varieties. You can always tell one of these is nearby when the backyard birds go totally still and silent. They won’t flinch…or maybe even breath until the coast is clear. On this particular day this hawk targeted a few Cardinals in the area, but the songbirds were well equipped to handle the predator. They got situated in the middle of a very large and thick bush…the hawk would go right…they would go left…in and out, around and around it went until the hawk got ever so slightly out of position…then the Cardinals made a clean break for the woods. Of course hawks like this will get a meal now and then…they have to, to survive. But don’t think that most songbirds aren’t savvy about survival too…it’s nature’s balancing act…and it works pretty darned well.