Making you guys jealous

[triggerfinger]

I'm writing this from my treestand which is awesome on it's own. But while I haven't seen any deer yet I did get to watch some small hawklike bird about the size of a small chicken catch and eat his supper.  Made my day.   And just 9 days til my elk hunt.  To quote pappy,  life is good!

[johnston]

Bantam hawk maybe?

Lane

[Pappy]

Cool,thats always a treat when I get to see something like that,don't happen often but when it does it's special. 
   Pappy

[lowell]

Few years ago I was sitting in a stand and a kestrel/sparrow hawk landed in a tree maybe 30 yards from me.  I watched it and it was wacthing me.  All of a sudden it made an arching flight right at my face and at the last moment I put my hand up and the hawk flew to the side and was gone. 

  One sees some cool stuff sitting silently on stand!!

[sonny]

I've had it happen at least twice that I know of but you can hear the hawk coming via squirrel barks.
Sitting in one of my favorite stands a few years ago I heard squirrels barking at something and the barks became progressively louder as the hawk got closer. Finally it came swooping in nearly grabbing a squirrel that jumped to the next tree over just in time. Well that brave little @^$% jumped back into the tree that the hawk had landed in and climbed up the tree toward it, seeming to know that the hawk couldn't really do anything. I found that really amusing.   
too bad I didn't have my camera out and set on video, ready to shoot.

[triggerfinger]

It was a pretty cool experience.  I think it knew I was there but didn't see me as any threat.   It was in bow range,  I caught myself wishing it was something to fling an arrow at.