Hungry hawk in Hamden

HAMDEN, Conn. (WTNH) - In Hamden, something in the air has people ducking for cover.

the son of News 8 photographer Tim Clune's pulled out a phone the other day and took a picture. What he got was a wildlife story.

Conor Clune said his usual walk home from school is not very exciting.

Clune,11, was walking home with a scone, that apparently attracted some hungry birds. Lurking in the trees close by was a hungry hawk.

"I said to myself, "Wow, that's a pretty big hawk."  So I took out my phone to take a picture of it.  I was eating a scone that I got down on Whitney," said Clune.

With a scone in one hand and his cell phone in the other, Clune snapped a blurred photo of a hawk.  He then spotted another hawk in a tree behind him. One he said, became very aggressive.

"I see the one in that tree, fly down, and then all of a sudden it comes at my face, I threw the scone, it landed on the ground, and it started running.  I turned around at the houses over there and saw it picked up my scone," said Clune.

Recently a pair of red-tailed hawk has been terrorizing people at a school in Fairfield, and they knocked one woman off a bicycle.  

Clune said he is not nervous about taking his daily walk home from school again. But he did say the encounter came at a coincidental time, because he had just watched the movie, The Birds, by Alfred Hitchcock.