Lunch time
The hawk is back. This time with lunch. We didn’t witness nor hear the demise of what looks like the remains of a pigeon. However, we did watch the hawk polish of its lunch. I’m not sure it’s the same hawk that I posted earlier. I wonder if Carissa Braun can confirm that it is a Sharp-shinned Hawk with the new photos.
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wow- so neat to see!!
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mary Zeman, I’ll have to clean up after the hawk. I don’t want Ana having any leftovers.
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Ahh, much better! That’s definitely the face of a Cooper’s Hawk. So cool you got to see him each lunch!
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Carissa Braun, Cooper’s hawks are more common than Sharp-shinned hawks around here. That’s why I had not heard of them until you mentioned it on the last post.
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I bet Gnotic Pasta is out and about capturing photos of equally interesting wildlife.
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Gnotic Pasta, maybe some day Carissa Braun will realize that cold, crisp air helps you
identify birdsthink better. All that heat in TX can’t be good for you. 🙂March 13, 2016
Gnotic Pasta, would be nice to check that out next time I’m there.
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I was in an office once, 2nd floor, that was at slightly higher elevation than a streetlight. A hawk had lifted a pretty large rabbit to the top of the light and was tearing bits off of it. We were an audience of 30 or 40 people, horizontally about 25 or 30 feet away. It was quite a spectacle. We pondered the ultimate scenario of the carcass falling to the roadbed below, possibly into traffic.
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It looks like the pigeon exploded!💣
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Brigitte W., the mess is still in the backyard.
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We live between two urban parks, one of which has a sizable lake, so there are occasional bits of carnage all over the place. Between the raccoons, coyotes, bald eagles, crows, ravens (and outliers like the bobcat we had in our backyard), there’s a lot going on, beast-wise.
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most excellent, Chad Haney !
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Not quite as spectacular as your photos, Steven Spence.
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It’s nature and an awesome photo, Chad Haney ! I’d love to see something like this when I have my camera handy. Have a great Sunday!
March 13, 2016
My resident raptor identifier says its an immature Sharp-shined or Cooper’s hawk. The outline of the end of its tail would help distinguish them. She says the same thing about your March 2014 hawk.
March 14, 2016
Sharpies aren’t as common, but I’ve had them sneak into my neighborhood in the past. Coopers are definitely more common.
And as awesome as all those birds and that conservatory Gnotic Pasta told me about sounds, I refuse to go north until it warms up. I can’t identify birds if I’m shivering!