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Jeff Clark
at Thu Mar 26 02:32:58 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Clark ]
Sharp Shinned Hawks are common around here. They take a bunch of Doves from around the feeders in the neighborhood. I do not see them making their kills but often find them on the trail in the woods behind my house eating Doves. They seem to almost exclusively eat Doves. They usually leave just the feathers in a perfect round circular pattern where they eat them. The bigger hawks are also common in the neighborhoood and they eat the squirrels. I have seen them make several kills. Last year one of them killed a squirrel in the front yard and sat on top of the mailbox with it. Another squirrel made a run from one tree to another and the hawk killed it and left the dead one on the mailbox. I also see lots of Ospreys and the occasional Bald Eagle in the area. The Eagles take fish from the Ospreys.
>>NOT a peregrine. Sorry. Peregrines are NOT that color and they are MUCH bigger.
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>>It's a sharp-shinned hawk.
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>>They hunt small birds with excellence and adore backyard bird feeders as it's like a McDonald's drive through window to them. They are VERY good at taking down birds as large as mourning doves. Because of the high speeds they fly and fighter-jet type turns they make, they are prone to hitting windows and such because they don't always see them being too focused on their prey and fail at crash control measures.
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- OT- Peregrine Falcon on Back Patio - petie11o5, Wed Mar 25 16:30:48 2009
- RE: OT- Peregrine Falcon on Back Patio - FRoberts, Wed Mar 25 17:05:24 2009
- RE: OT- Peregrine Falcon on Back Patio - saagbay, Wed Mar 25 17:07:43 2009
- Not a peregrine - Wyvern, Wed Mar 25 17:12:57 2009
- RE: Not a peregrine - rainbowsrus, Wed Mar 25 17:21:17 2009
- RE: Not a peregrine - Wyvern, Wed Mar 25 17:43:20 2009
- sorry for the mix up... - petie11o5, Wed Mar 25 17:44:24 2009
- RE: Not a peregrine - rainbowsrus, Wed Mar 25 18:00:18 2009
- Oh and..... - rainbowsrus, Wed Mar 25 18:02:19 2009
- RE: Not a peregrine - saagbay, Wed Mar 25 18:04:47 2009
- RE: Oh and..... - Wyvern, Wed Mar 25 19:33:32 2009
- RE: Not a peregrine - Wyvern, Wed Mar 25 19:47:58 2009
- RE: Not a peregrine - saagbay, Wed Mar 25 22:33:30 2009
- Go for it... - petie11o5, Thu Mar 26 00:54:55 2009
Urban Killers - Jeff Clark, Thu Mar 26 02:32:58 2009
- Birds evolved from reptiles - gaboonx, Thu Mar 26 07:42:25 2009
- RE: Urban Killers - saagbay, Thu Mar 26 09:17:25 2009
- RE: Urban Killers - Wyvern, Thu Mar 26 16:59:14 2009
- RE: That is probably a Cooper's Hawk - paulbuck, Fri Mar 27 01:57:14 2009
- RE: sorry for the mix up... - Jeff Clark, Sat Mar 28 20:05:15 2009
- RE: That is probably a Cooper's Hawk - Jeff Clark, Sat Mar 28 20:20:01 2009
- RE: That is probably a Cooper's Hawk - paulbuck, Sat Mar 28 22:18:11 2009
- RE: sorry for the mix up... - petie11o5, Mon Mar 30 19:22:20 2009
- RE: That is probably a Cooper's Hawk - Wyvern, Tue Mar 31 11:40:54 2009
- RE: That is probably a Cooper's Hawk - paulbuck, Tue Mar 31 21:58:44 2009
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