Cooper’s Hawk foraging invertebrates on lakeside lawn - Chicago

This video of juvenile Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) shows unusual foraging behavior for this species. Cooper’s Hawks typically hunt birds and small mammals from a perch. This juvenile bird on the shore of Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago in mid-October appears to hunting insects. It is probably on migration and having difficulty finding its normal prey. It snatches at small items on the surface and digs its bill hard into the ground, presumably trying to get at grasshoppers or crickets. In general, the straight bill of a thrush or shorebird works better for probing into soil. McCormick Park Nature Preserve about 50 meters away and the “Magic Hedge” park a few miles upshore provides good habitat for migrating Cooper’s Hawk.
Juvenile Cooper’s is distinguished from the similar Sharp-shinned Hawk by thin, dark streaks down the chest (compared to the thick, brown streaks extending low on the belly in Sharpies), a more square head, and more white on the tail tip.
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[@wildlifeinmygarden2117]

Great footage and so close to an urban environment 👍

[@CliveBramham]

Wildlife in my Garden :-) The refuge is a magnet for migrants following the shoreline.

[@StoilDIvanov]

Probably Grasshoppers.

[@CliveBramham]

Yes. It's going for items at the surface and digging down deeper. Small grasshoppers and crickets?