Urban Hawk With It's Prey

I cut through a neighborhood today to avoid congestion on a main street and came up to a stop sign and noticed a hawk sitting on a light pole. I was able to get across the street and park. I opened my camera bag and got my D-300 Nikon out, and replaced the small zoom with a 70-300mm lens. The hawk stayed there just long enough for me to get a series of photos as it took off with the bird it had just caught. In recent years I have noticed the numbers of urban hawks increase dramatically.