![Stick-play](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5593/14770282471_76b93403dd_b.jpg)
![Stick-play](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3837/14770286541_9d95ba1450_b.jpg)
![Stick-play](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3853/14770283691_a6d88da67d_b.jpg)
![Stick-play](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2931/14770285281_e59ae2556d_b.jpg)
![Juvenile red tail playing with a stick](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5589/14765881013_3668836d85_b.jpg)
There's always time to take a break from stick-play to pose for photos...
![Superstar](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3878/14586819998_5291f57269_b.jpg)
...or to people-watch.
![Untitled](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3891/14770291201_ab7da7f9fd_b.jpg)
Just after sunset on Sunday, one of the kids caught a rat over by the handball courts.
![Baby catches a rat](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5565/14773106732_f71aca2b5d_b.jpg)
I've seen the young hawks catch mice, but this was the first time I saw any of them catch a rat, and the scene drew quite a crowd...
![Baby catches a rat](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3865/14771089484_e61cb9874b_b.jpg)
...and there were many cheers as the hawk struggled to get the heavy rat up and over a fence, then zoomed down Avenue B.
![Baby catches a rat](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5575/14586805898_92601ab9ac_b.jpg)
I hear a lot of interesting comments from people encountering the hawks for the first time. My favorites from this day were:
Man (while watching a hawk hop around in a tree): What is that? Oh, it's just a cat.
Another man (coming upon a crowd of people looking up at a hawk in a tree): What are y'all looking at? GOD?!
Yes.
See more hawk photos here:
City hawks 3
City hawks 2
City hawks 1
Previously.