He’s the most beautiful falcon that is often mistakenly called a Sparrow Hawk, and while he will dine on an occasional sparrow he definitely doesn’t belong to the hawk family. He lives in the open country and loves to perch on a wire like this one. Here he is hunting rodents and might hover over his prey. Dinner is often a bat, snake, or frog as well which he will bring to his female and feed her right in mid-air. His three to seven babies will often be born in a nest box along a highway, a provision that has encouraged recovery of their declining numbers in the Northeast.