Monday, January 27, 2014

How Cold Is It?




 5°F

Same Hawk - I combined two images to help save the environmet.


This Red Tail Hawk is hardly newsworthy, but it is maybe just the second time in 30+ years that one has been around long enough, and close enough,  to have a good picture taken.  We've been strewing plenty of seed and bread  on the deck, but it's been the (heated) water tray that's drawing birds of every stripe to our yard.  Mr. Hawk may have stopped for a drink,  and is waiting around for a nice plump Mourning Dove to stop in.  Or even, OMG, even a ratbastard squirrel!  Our Red Fox is also very active these days, as are the Coon Raiders at night.  Worse comes to bad, we will eat all of these creatures.




11 comments:

DougM said...

Then you'll enjoy this, Rodge.

Tom Mann said...

I'm no expert, but that looks like a youngun. Be a nice friend to have.

Anonymous said...

Didn't you once link to a video of someone's backyard after a hurricane filled with hundreds of hummingbirds?
Tim

Esteve said...

Rodger, not trying to be a know-it-all, but that fellow is a red shouldered hawk. The striped tail is the giveaway. We have them everywhere here in my part of Florida on the northern edge of the Ocala National Forest. Great birds for small varmint and snake control.

Anonymous said...

Hope the hawk can avoid the wind farms sprouting

Anonymous said...

Beg to differ on the hawk species, looks to me like either Coopers or Sharp-shinned (chicken hawks). It's looking to grab one of the one's you're feeding, not the water. You won't find any other birds out for about an hour or so. The hawks will just sit there and look for some movement to flush one out of hiding.

Zeke

Anonymous said...

As I was standing in the back yard the other day waiting for the medical examiner to show up , (because I refused to go inside to see my Brothers body) . I was reflecting on the fact that I'm the last man standing of 3 brothers . Suddenly two huge red tailed hawks came windmilling down , and landed in the tree right above my head ! This has never happened before , and at that moment I knew that they were now together again ! They sat there looking at me , and I said "HELLO , GLAD TO SEE YOU MADE IT !" Then they both flew away ! I cried my eyes out , while smiling at the same time ; ) > SMIBSID

Jess said...

I don't know what species it is, but I'm betting it would tear your ass up, if you tried to catch it.

David said...

We have a Coopers Hawk that hunts in our back yard. We haven't figured out where it nests yet, but it isn't in our trees. My wife was putting out a bunch of bird seed the other day and my mother-in-law asked what kind of birds she was feeding? She said "I'm feeding the hawk." MIL started laughing and said "Hawks don't eat seeds." My dear wife responded "No, but the doves love the seeds, and the hawk loves the doves..."

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Google Red Tail Hawk Tail Feathers

Anonymous said...

Sid - sorry for your loss.
PvtCdr(SS) MichigammeDave

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