So there I was digging some footings for my new deck I am building. I hear this whoosh noise go right over my head. Piercing whistling scream. I look just in time to see something, a Hawk, a Falcon, Small eagle? It swooped down and grabbed a squirrel that was in a tree about 20 feet away from me and off it went....It was fairly big and had brown speckled wings. Big wings. I knew it wasn't a crow. I thought at first it was an Owl. But then I saw it climb up over the trees. Squirrel limp in its talons. Pretty sure it was some type of Falcon....who knows? It was pretty cool though. Gotta Love the nature up here. Just wish I had a camera with me. Happened so fast I probably wouldn't have gotten anything anyway......
