A Redditor in Seattle got an unexpected holiday-season guest, and it wasn’t a relative.
The homeowner shared a photo to r/SeattleWA showing a striking bird of prey perched on a fence post in their yard.
“I didn’t know we had birds here like this!” they wrote. “Can you tell me what kind it is? It looks like this one is having a very abundant holiday in my yard.”
The image shows a Cooper’s hawk with distinctive brown-and-white streaked feathers, with its talons gripping what appears to be freshly caught prey…