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Post by beefjello on Mar 5, 2021 18:46:43 GMT -5
Christa and I spotted this big guy at the top of our neighbor’s tree. I believe it’s a Harris Hawk. .JPG?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Beautiful bird! |
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Mar 5, 2021 19:13:06 GMT -5
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 5, 2021 19:13:06 GMT -5
Gorgeous! We have them up here, too, but not at our house. Our house is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cooper.  |
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Mar 5, 2021 20:12:12 GMT -5
Post by rockjunquie on Mar 5, 2021 20:12:12 GMT -5
Beautiful bird and great picture.
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Post by jasoninsd on Mar 5, 2021 21:53:26 GMT -5
Gorgeous shot! We've got a bunch of Bald Eagles flying over the house and visiting a prairie dog town a couple hundred yards from our back door. My phone camera can't get a good shot of them...and I don't have a camera that would get the best shot ever...nor am I going to get one any time soon...so I love seeing pics like these!  |
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Post by stephan on Mar 6, 2021 16:21:31 GMT -5
Great shot, there.
One of neighbors has a white-tailed kite nesting in a tree. It’s a couple of doors down, and a very tall tree, so I haven’t gotten a good picture yet. Beautiful bird, though, and I love their hunting hover.
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Mar 7, 2021 17:07:17 GMT -5
Post by inslewinsle on Mar 7, 2021 17:07:17 GMT -5
Beautiful!!!
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Post by beefjello on Mar 8, 2021 19:54:57 GMT -5
Thanks everyone. Our next door neighbor has those little Ewok looking yorkie 'dogs'. We gave her fair warning.
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 9, 2021 17:53:10 GMT -5
I used to work with a Harris's Hawk. Fascinating critters. Only hawk I know of that hunts in packs. Have interesting social behavior too. Since they live in places where perches are often scarce, they will "stack" where they sit on each other back to get higher and give them a better view of the countryside. Lower status birds also give up perch positions to those of higher status. One we had was a nervous bird and hard to work with but certainly beautiful to look at. First bird of prey to send me for the bandages and betadine. Had him smack me right in the face with his talons my first day at work.
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Post by Pat on Mar 9, 2021 19:13:50 GMT -5
Sabre52. Your stacked birds reminds me of the doves that frequently nest in our pergola. While one dove was sitting in the nest, the other parent would go hunt for more twigs. When “he” returned with a twig, he would hop on the sitting bird’s back, lean forward and hand over the twig. Seemed odd.
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Post by jasoninsd on Mar 9, 2021 19:16:19 GMT -5
Thanks everyone. Our next door neighbor has those little Ewok looking yorkie 'dogs'. We gave her fair warning. My folks are our neighbors...whenever we see the Bald Eagles, I call them to let them know. They have a miniature Schnauzer...a pretty easy meal for an eagle... |
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Post by USMC15 on Mar 11, 2021 11:38:12 GMT -5
YOU FOUND HIM! You found Hawkeye!
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Post by lookatthat on Mar 11, 2021 14:40:26 GMT -5
I guy lost his up here in VT. Flew off never to return. I wonder how it fared in our winters.
Just saw a pair of red-taileds yesterday. The ravens were after them in an instant.
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Post by stephan on Mar 14, 2021 0:41:00 GMT -5
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Post by jasoninsd on Mar 14, 2021 2:01:11 GMT -5
Nice photo...but even better title for it! |
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 14, 2021 9:01:17 GMT -5
Hmm, Are you sure those are red-tails? To me they look like a couple of young Coopers hawks, slender body, long legs and tails, eye bar, and short broad wings points to accipitor to me when i see the pic.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 14, 2021 10:46:55 GMT -5
Hmm, Are you sure those are red-tails? To me they look like a couple of young Coopers hawks, slender body, long legs and tails, eye bar, and short broad wings points to accipitor to me when i see the pic. They look like Coopers to me, too. Our "kids" look like that. Red-taileds have a different pattern on their breast feathers, too. |
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Post by stephan on Mar 14, 2021 23:59:46 GMT -5
Hmm, Are you sure those are red-tails? To me they look like a couple of young Coopers hawks, slender body, long legs and tails, eye bar, and short broad wings points to accipitor to me when i see the pic. Nope wasn’t sure. Thanks for the ID. Not too common here. We usually get red tails or Swainson’s, and the odd sharpie and red-shouldered. hummingbirdstones The juveniles always throw me. |
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 15, 2021 7:34:27 GMT -5
Yep, juveniles are sometimes tough to ID. Since we have a lot of bird feeders, we get a lot of hawks in our yard. Coops and sharpies are quite common as are red shouldered hawks. We also get red tails, Cara caras, and the occasional zone tailed hawk. Since we are in a major north-south migration path we get several other species passing through too. Fun place for a birder to live. Right now we have some Canada geese on the creek and sandhill cranes flying over. Man do they make a lot of noise.
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Post by Rockoonz on Mar 15, 2021 10:21:23 GMT -5
beefjello we see the Harris hawks out here regularly, I always think about where the chihuahua is. When in flight they are beautiful birds.
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Post by mohs on Mar 15, 2021 13:13:01 GMT -5
Yep crested caracara  are known to like Taco's  Yo Brian ! hope to meet up with ya before the simmer sets in |
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