Some of them do sound like that, with their “hawk, hawk, hawk!”. After nearly two years of hunting birds in Manitoba, I have come to understand that birds are plentiful. Unlike the birds I have seen in Europe, although the places I lived were not really made for birds, I admit. Getting any bird here is fairly easy, just point your camera

off the balcony or pick it up when you’re lazily sipping a beer in the back yard and you’ll get a bird. But to get some raptors is a different matter. You have to go and get them, stalk them and even wait for them to come back to a spot where they were before.




