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Well, it's finally happened, Hawk ate one of the birds
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Posted by paulsiu (My Page) on Sat, Feb 6, 10 at 11:03
| This morning, I am watching the yard from the bedroom when a large flock of pigeon appears. These guy were way larger than all of the birds visiting the feeder. In fact, the pigeon are bigger than the squirrels.
Suddenly, they took off. This sort of thing happened before. They fly in and eat then mysteriously take off, making a lot of noise. This time a pair started fighting on the ground. That's when I realized that one of them is not a pigeon but a hawk. This guy was bigger than the pigeons. Eventually the hawk killed off the pigeon.
I went to show my wife, but by the time we came back, it had flew off with the pigeon (which was a surprise to me since they were that much larger than the pigeon). My wife said that they commonly fly off with their prey.
I didn't get a chance to get a picture. Now I can't figure out which type of hawk it is (I only seen it up top). I guess I can eliminate them by size. It's probably not a Sharp-shin, since it'll be smaller than a very large pigeon.
Paul |
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RE: Well, it's finally happened, Hawk ate one of the birds
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Hi Paul,
Don't know if you have ever looked @ whatbird.com. I use it sometimes as a place to help with identification. Towards the bottom of the home page, in the middle, there is an option for "in 3 clicks using search". This allows for all sorts of search parameters....where you are located, size of bird, color, patterns, etc. I really like the process of elimination that it provides. I will say though, the pictures aren't always the best, but you can always get some names and then search images elsewhere to help with I.D. You might check it out to see if that helps! Other than that, I can't offer anything.....I have a difficult time I.D.ing (is that a word?)hawks. Good luck. |
RE: Well, it's finally happened, Hawk ate one of the birds
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| Paul, The most common back yard preditor for me is the Coopers Hawk, but It depends on where you live. |
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