We had a visitor at the bird feeder. I was sitting in my lazy boy chair, and I looked up and out the window. There it was. I think I did a sort of double take. "OMG, a hawk!"
Let me crop that for you!
That written, I still don't know! We had a Cooper's here before, confirmed by Gilligalou.
Then, there was this one, a juvenile sharp-shinned hawk, on a cold afternoon. It was April, 2015. [Critters abound: hawk on the bird feeder!]
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| This is our sharp-shinned hawk. |
This one hit the window, self-inflicted chasing a bird! It recovered, as Hooper watched over it. [Tornados, Cardinals, Butch, and a hawk!]
I got up, and went to the other window. By the time I remembered, on my new videocamera, that I had to manually open the lens cap, it was in flight. Hawk jan 2
11 comments:
What a nice serendipitous sighting for you.
Great you caught the hawk in flight.
It's a very handsome bird which ever it is.
Hari OM
That take off flight at the very end of the vid shows the bird to be pretty large - which favours a diagnosis of Coopers!!! YAM xx
Great photo of the Hawk! I think the size is a big difference, the Cooper's is 5 inch larger than the Sharp-shinned. Take care, I wish you a happy new week!
I'm not good with hawk ID. I might vote for a Cooper though.
...and I wouldn't know the difference.
Coopers for sure.
What a fabulous visitor and you got a great photo too!
My latest has a pic of what I think was a Cooper’s Hawk, juvenile. I don’t have anybody to ask IRL, so I read and looked at Internet pictures. It had a yellow eye. One site said juveniles Coopers did.
PS ...my pictures aren’t anywhere near as good as yours.
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