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Post by ccprof on Jan 30, 2011 14:23:57 GMT -6
This guy is using the bird feeder on the back deck as a drive-up buffet. In the 34 years I've lived here, I've never been this close (10 feet).  |
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Post by wolfhound on Jan 30, 2011 18:42:37 GMT -6
I have a red tailed Hawk, Lady Hawk, who yearly stays around our place. she hunts our
meadow, from our barb wire fence. See her most mornings but can not get closer than 30 feet before she flies. They are beautiful birs.
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Post by ccprof on Jan 31, 2011 8:52:02 GMT -6
We have a couple red tails that cruise by. This Cooper's Hawk (Henry) and his mate (Henrietta) are the neighborhood terrors. Usually, they stay toward the back of the yard.
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Post by kz1000st on Jan 31, 2011 9:49:49 GMT -6
Living in the sticks we have all kinds of birds like that. The area is over run with with Turkey Buzzards, Hawks, Owls and even a family of Bald Eagles hover nearby. The other day there was a bird I never saw before. It was big and white with black accents on its wing tips and a reddish head. It just floated on the air currents above the house looking for eats and then circled away. My Black Lab eyed it suspiciously but for the rest of the day we made sure to stay close to the Yorkie when we let her out.
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Post by wolfhound on Jan 31, 2011 10:19:38 GMT -6
No eagles here but we have the hawks, buzzards, and owls. And the biggest crows you have
ever seen. The crows gang up on the hawks and will pester them til they leave.
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Post by ccprof on Jan 31, 2011 13:52:56 GMT -6
KZ - Canadian immigrant?
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Post by kz1000st on Jan 31, 2011 18:05:30 GMT -6
I don't know what it was. My wife tried looking it up based on my description. Maybe a Snowy Owl or some kind of Hawk. Whatever it was it looked ominous and pretty sure of itself. The Lab looked like she was bracing herself for a fight and wouldn't take her eyes off it and normally she's a lover not a fighter. |
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Post by LUKE on Jan 31, 2011 18:20:44 GMT -6
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Post by ccprof on Feb 1, 2011 11:56:23 GMT -6
Just the one we're operating out back Luke. We offer a wide selection of other birds. I've seen them get young bunnies and try for squirrels - no luck there.
KZ - I tried based on your description. A number of hawks have the black accents and whitish under wings. The reddish head is the problem.
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