Posted on 01/20/2009 6:55:22 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
This is how I spent my day, too pretty to watch anything on TV!
This is an immature bird, I'm only 90% on the ID, several of the hawks have similar young.
I got through a whole day without being busted by a rentacop!
What a beauty. Please add me to your ping list. Thanks!
I run them hard, frog spit in the controls, you name it. We have sulphur in our well water and the fumes tend to corrode brass and copper, it is hard on electronic gear.
Nice pics!
I think young red tails have more distinctive dark colored, spade-shaped, back and side feathers (like the spade in a deck of cards, pointed end down but edged in thin white). And more white head feathers right above the beak.
Done deal!
Beautiful! You had a better day than me. I was stuck in an office all day.
Hawk/raptor pictures ping list?
Add me please.
Add me to your hawk/raptor ping list too. Thanks. Great pictures.
In South Texas last year, I saw a pair of Harris hawks attacking a Cooper’s hawk in the air. The person leading the tour thought the Cooper’s had been too close to the Harris hawks’ nest.
You might find a new FZ-30. It has been discontinued in the fast moving digital camera world. The FZ50 is the current bridge camera mega-zoom Panasonic offering.
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Great pictures. A sharp shinned hawk is real hard to tell from a Cooper’s, especially immature. A sharp shinned is smaller...
Good plan staying away from the TV today.
Looks like a cooper’s to me......
They are beautiful but THEY EAT MY BIRDS!!!!!
Stunning as usual.
One eats my birds, too. I don’t mind the English sparrows so much, but I don’t want to lose the pair of Carolina wrens. The one here sometimes hangs out on a shed roof about ten feet from the kitchen door.
Beautiful.
Could you please add me to your ping list?
Very nice, I do not know if I have ever seen one.
Gotcha!
But one time on a bird count, a lady was pointing out a bird and someone asked her "what is it"?
Her reply: It's beautiful!! I thought that was a nice reminder of what's really important.
BTW, It was a Harrier she saw. Was called a Marsh Hawk back in those days.
Great ! We have a mature bird who visits once in a while during the summer months - at least that’s what I think he is ! (Coopers and Sharpshins resemble each other at a distance.)
Gorgeous.
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