The Hawk

On Saturday morning I was filling my bird feeders in the back yard.  In addition to the Goldfinch feeders and the "regular backyard" bird feeder (for the house finches, juncos, chickadees, etc), on my deck there is a peanut feeder that is regularly visited by Bluejays, Tufted Titmice, white and red bellied Nuthatches and one pesky squirrel.  The red bellied Nuthatch was especially cool because they don't show up every winter.  As I filled the peanut feeder I noticed a Tufted Titmouse in the tree beside the deck watching me.  I said "Good morning" and he gave me a look that said "Just fill up the feeder, deke.  I can smell them nuts!".  When I finished, I turned away from the feeder to put my feed away and heard a loud rustling of wings.  I turned back just in time to see a Red Tailed Hawk on my deck.  Red Tails are about 2 feet tall and they mean nothing but business.  As I confronted him, I was taken aback to the point that I stumbled (my wife says I swooned). He then flew up into my neighbors tree.  I called my wife out on the deck to see him and he flew higher onto the limb of another tree in the backyard of the next neighbor.  I didn't see if he had caught anything but my peanut feeder as of this writing remains untouched.  No Bluejays.  No Titmice. No nuthatches.  This is a feeder that I regularly need to fill every third day.

So, my question is, do they have hawks in Springfield Il.?  Does the governor eat peanuts?