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Red-tailed Hawk bringing in some food for the chicks in the nest. Photographed in the Boise Highlands, Idaho
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the skies have been incessantly grey lately....often too dark and gloomy for images.... this particular day a few days ago was on the cusp, but this red tailed hawk posed for a bit which brightened the day up altogether :-)
The Eurasian sparrowhawk, also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Accipiter nisus
Mass: 7.8 oz Encyclopedia of Life
Red-tailed Hawk in our backyard in the Boise Highlands, Idaho
I discovered last week that we have a Red-tailed Hawk nest just below our deck in the Boise Highlands. The female is resting on the eggs. This I believe is the male on a nearby cottonwood tree among the catkins keeping guard and occasionally delivering food to the female. I expect the chicks will hatch towards the end of the month.
A juvenile Red-tailed Hawk visiting our deck in the Boise Highlands. This hawk was born in a nest behind our house on May 2nd. Photograph taken through our living room window.
the wind was buffeting the feathers of this red tailed hawk while he surveyed the ground beneath him
from a distance and heavily cropped but was still a sight to see.
They had a nest in the spruce, hidden from view
Red-tailed Hawk is showing off the flexibility of its neck.
老鷹的脖子十分靈活，一般都可以前後回轉180度。有些老鹰除了前後回轉，左右伸展的能力也很強，像圖中這隻紅尾鷹，是我見過的老鷹中，伸展能力最強的一隻。
Santa Clara, California
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06/12/19
The Howard County Bird club has a new hawk watching spot at the Howard County Conservancy. A nice assortment of benches makes it a pleasant place to pass the time. This lovely Red-tailed Hawk swooped down to take a closer look at me hawk watching :)
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The red-tailed hawk is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies. It is one of the most common members within the genus of Buteo in North America or worldwide. Wikipedia
Red-tailed Hawk (juvenile)
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I just hope this isn't Sydney! Went out to get the mail. Crows were agitated as only a gang of crows can be. Followed them and there was a besieged Red-tail Hawk with a Gray squirrel in his talons that had taken refuge on top of a neighbor's house. (Well, this hawk was practicing "hiding in plain sight," and finding out that it was a very bad idea.) Unfortunately for the squirrel and me, its tail twitched. Five minutes and 25 shots later, the squirrel was dead.
The hawk really didn't know what to do. Six crows were dive-bombing him, and after about another five minutes, he made a break for it. He ended up in the tallest branches of a redwood, but the crows didn't give up. He was so entrenched that the crows could get to the hawk. They parted, and I watched for another couple of minutes. The hawk may still be there.
This is the first time that I actually saw a kill in "my" territory. Well, a kill by a bird. (I have seen King snakes and a Western Diamondback, the former taking on a Garter snake flic.kr/p/JAD2BE and the latter, a California Ground Squirrel - after the fact flic.kr/p/2jKbpVq. Nature is not always pleasant, but I keep reminding me that wildlife has to eat, and outside of a few close primates, I don't know of any other animal that kills "for sport.") I'm just a softie.
P.S. It wasn't Sydney. Probably just a minor heir to the throne. I went out at Bernie's suggestion to see if he's come around for a cashew. Well, he met me at the door, chattered a bit, then too the nut and went to eat it in the tangelo tree. That's my Sydney.
I can't say the same thing about the photographer, since I forgot to reset the shutter speed on my camera and had a lot of blurry shots! (I'm surprised I got any in focus). The Red-tailed hawk flew across the road in front of me and caught a mouse or vole. It proceeded to devour its prey in all its bloody goriness. Those of you who hate that kind of shot will be happy to know they all came out blurry. It took less than a minute for the prey to be devoured.