I occasionally keep pigeons in a small coop in my back yard for dog training. Last year, I was sitting on the couch and looked out the window to see a hawk (either a Cooper's hawk or a sharp shinned) sitting on top of the coop, eyeballing the pigeons. Then he flew down to the garden fence and hopped along the edge, again looking at the coop/pigeons. Finally, he dropped to the lawn and looked up at the coop (it's on stilts) and looked at the pigeons.....I swear he was trying to find a way in for an easy meal. A few days later my neighbor told me the same thing......he saw the bird on top of the coop when he came back from the store.
Wish he would take some of the dang squirrels around here....had three different ones in the tree yesterday, and I know what they are gonna do to my garden once the blooms start appearing!
