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Topics => Entertainment => Topic started by: Libertas on May 23, 2014, 09:15:50 AM
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Red Shouldered Hawk...they look like this -
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Red_Shouldered_Hawk_on_Blue_Sky.JPG/180px-Red_Shouldered_Hawk_on_Blue_Sky.JPG)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-shouldered_Hawk
...landed on my bush at the front window of my house, between it and the front step I have a bird bath the little buggers like to use...
...same bird I saw hunting in the neighborhood last spring...
...their diet can include Doves and Chipmunks and we have Mourning Doves and Chipmunks aplenty!
I hope he gets most of the Chipmunks!
Nice looking bird, not all noisy either...he likes stealth and quickness...I admire that in a predator.
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We have a couple around here.
Beautiful and nice to watch.
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There's a hawk that frequents the wooded office park where I work, and I have witnessed it flying around with squirrels in its talons, then perching on a branch and meticulously pulling all the fur off the squirrel. I don't know if it's one of these or a red-tailed hawk. Pretty amazing to watch right in the middle of a very urban area.
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Urban areas often lack ground predators, l am surprised more raptors are not exploiting the situation, it is a buffet of rodents & smaller\slower birds.