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Sharp-sinned Hawk that is perched in one of my flowering crabapple trees right now and has been around most of the morning and so far this afternoon. Yakima County, Washington.
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They are not all that rare in our area, but this is the first time we ever got lucky.
Canon FD300mm f/2.8 and 1.4 extender
Red Kite at Argaty. Was tracking this one up high when it decided to land sharply. Settings a bit out hence the grainy background.
This is a lifer for me and is a rare vagrant here. This individual is in winter plumage.
According to Wikipedia:
"The sharp-tailed sandpiper (Calidris acuminata) is a small-medium migratory wader or shorebird, found mostly in Siberia during the summer breeding period (June to August) and Australia for wintering (September to March)."
I hope it gets to Australia.
Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, Alberta.
A Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) perched on an old fencepost near the Great Sandhills south of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2 June, 2011.
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I'd been wondering why I haven't had any birds at my feeders for the last few days. Then I saw this beautiful little guy perched in the feeder tree. I would assume that it was a male as it appeared very small - about Kestrel size. This is the first one I have noted in my yard and I hope he comes back from time to time but not take up permanent residence here.
A sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) in the yard near a feeder in Tucson, Arizona. (Thanks to Arron Watler for help with the id).
Image sharpness has a special button!
Actually, these 'buttons' are organ mixture stops. These stops give to each organ note simultaneously the notes of the major chord, in other words the major third and perfect fifth. Some say that arguably, in some cases these stops result in harmonic congestion as they are largely a result of medieval ignorance and their search for loudness in a world without electricity to drive power amplifiers. Organs were at one time talked of as 'instruments of power', as mixtures were used to achieve a balance of harmony and acoustic power resulting in loudness across an audio spectrum, something that played a significant part in medieval power politics.