Photographed at home, Yakima County, Washington. As always, I have difficulty distinguishing juvenile Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawk so I could be incorrect. IMG_4505

When they were new the wide nose CN GP38-2's and 40-2's were on everything, clean and they looked sharp, here rolling west of London, Ontario the 5560 leads an Extra west putting those white flags to the test on December 30, 1976.

One sharp, two blurred - it's a matter of focus and aperture..

Friguia Zoo Tunisia

Fellows Court, Hackney

#Sharp

Theme du #macroMondays

Branche de sapin 4cm.

Summers evening suits the cat for a quick stroll

Peering over the edge of a glass sculpture

I thought this was a Sharp-shinned hawk when I first saw it and it may be. What do you think? It is smaller (maybe 12 inches in length) than the adult Cooper's Hawk that I have photographed several times, and may have slightly skinnier legs.

Yesterday (Feb. 5) I saw this bird on my apricot tree out the back window. I walked out my front door and looked around the corner and didn't see it until it hopped up on another branch. I got one photo, which is the 3rd photo in this series. Then it flew towards me and landed on a fence only 20 feet from where I was standing, which is the 2nd photo. A short time latter it flew down to where I took the last picture, which is the first in this series. There was a bird, probably a junco under the propped up plywood. The little bird flew under my car with the hawk in hot pursuit. IMG_5794

Calidris acuminata, with Least Sandpiper in foreground.

Morro Bay salt marsh as a 6.2 ft. tide was receding,

Seen from marina boardwalk,

Morro Bay, California

The bird had been found the previous day at about high tide by Kilian Hampl and identified by Will Knowlton. This species breeds in northeast Asia and after a long migration, winters in southeast Asia and Australasia. A few birds migrate down the other side of the Pacific Ocean and it is considered a rare autumn migrant in North America.

May 20, 2022

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Yesterday I had an opportunity to spend the morning out at Smith Point for the hawk watch and it ended up being a great experience with plenty of raptors seen and photographed. This young Sharp-shinned Hawk flew right over us at close range and definitely checked us out.

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Accipiter striatus

Mr R Keet was wondering if he looked sharp or not. He is quite fussy about his looks in photos.

I wasn't going to upload more photos today but this hawk showed up and let me get a few photos. It moved around so I am posting 3 shots from different positions. This is in my backyard, Yakima County, Washington. This adult bird has now stopped by 3 consecutive days. IMG_6971

Three Americans (I'm behind the camera) doing aviation photography in Britain this summer.

Another small flock of sandpipers flew in.

bonelli's eagle, Habichtsadler

A group of 6 sharp-tails showed up in the yard today and feasted on sunflower seeds under the feeder.

Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger,

but a heart as soft as tofu.

(Chinese Proverb)

Weekly Theme Challenge - Something Fluffy

Looking close... on Friday! - Combination of Soft & Sharp

(photo by Freya, edit by me)

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New Jersey

At home

Cooper's Hawk

Accipiter cooperii

A visitor to my back yard early this past fall. I think it sees me, I am lucky to have not spooked it.

So, Sharpie or Coop? The top blocks of the retaining wall it landed on are about three inches thick, putting the bird at roughly 12-14 inches head to tail. The tail appears to be rather squared off, plus the streaking looks more like Sharp-shinned rather than Cooper's. All things considered I'm calling it a Sharpie. What do you think?

CORRECTION: A couple sharp-eyed Flickr friends provided evidence that this hawk is a Cooper's, not a Sharp-shinned. See the comments below. I stand corrected.

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Grand Traverse County, Michigan

This looks like a sharp-shinned to me. Cannot say who it's victim was.

Gibbaeum petrense

Cuticle Scissor 2” blade

April 9th_2019

Forgive me when I post too many photos of the grouse!

On April 9th 3 friends and I drove south of the city to a Sharp-tailed Grouse lek. I hadn't thought about the degree of difficulty that might challenge me in climbing over the stile with a knee replacement. I really struggled so I do not think I will be returning to see the grouse in future years.

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On this day I had been invited to visit my friend Barb who lives in the Millarville area. She has many feeders and quite a bit of garden as well as a greenhouse. There was lots to see! The evening before had been quite chilly providing lots of dew on the flowers.

This Sharp-shinned Hawk was chasing after the Blue Jays. There was constant commotion as the Jays chased it around and around.

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Sharpness

Sharp pocket computers, PC1350 and PC1360. These were the only two PC13XX models released by Sharp in 1984 and 1987. Both had 4 lines of 24 characters and were very capable in their day for BASIC programming, graphing, etc.

The key differences between the two were increased memory, an additional RAM port, as well as improved BASIC and faster CPU in the PC1360.

Kestrel [torenvalk]

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This weekend I had the possibility to test the EOS R5 with the EF600mm f4L IS II and the 2fold converter. It was impressing, the AF recognized the heads of the swans in a distance of more than 100meters promptly. The head with was focused was sharp even in 100% view.

Hepatica acutiloba

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shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a 7artisans 35mm f1.2 mark i lens

Sharp Shinned Hawk had an unsuccessful hunt in the yard. Maybe next time.

Day four of our hike was from Lago di Braies to Durrenstein Hutte, partly along Alta Via 3, a distance of about 18km south east through spectacular country with assents of 1206m and descents of 674m. Another big day. We were very happy to arrive at our destination.

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Decided to scout along the River Severn on the south eastern side.

Not knowing this part,as i always headed down the otherside,i came across this place of Sharpness.

It has a dock, this wooden structure being the entrance to it via a tidal basin.

The actual docks had an entrance with notices of no entry to the public,but i was able to get to this part as it had a picnic area.

Le using Lee Big Stopper ( 10 ND )

This hawk is a frequent visitor to the yard and at times spends hours waiting for the birds to come in to feed

They are putting on extension growth and flowering - and even fruiting - a bit early