Earlier today, my daughter was playing with a neighbor’s dog, and I took along the HD video camera loaned to me by my friend Mike for the Cincy convention…I wanted to get a feel for how to shoot the event (24p, 30p, 60i, Cine Mode on or off, so many friggin’ choices…). While we were out, a hawk flew through our yard being chased by a flock of seriously miffed blackbirds.

I grabbed the camera, and shot the hawk as he tried to perch on top of a nearby utility pole. Those blackbirds were seriously ticked-off, and kept dive-bombing the guy until they drove him off.

I realize there are some nasty artifacts in the flash video below; they are my fault, since I haven’t completely mastered this whole High-Definition-to-flash conversion process, but all things considered, it’s still a funny piece of video. Unless you’re that hawk.

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