OT Things to ponder

[BBfanboy]

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[Orm]

No news on the bird front?

[geofflambert]

Sorry Orm, it's been boring lately.

However, here's an important message from Google Street View:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5936359 ... 384!8i8192

[USSAmerica]

[:D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Sorry Orm, it's been boring lately.

However, here's an important message from Google Street View:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5936359 ... 384!8i8192

[:D]
Did those White-tailed buffoons set up there as advertising for the Museum/Monuments building next door? Not sure I would want a statue of one on my lawn ...

[geofflambert]

They're usually situated near the garden gnomes.

[geofflambert]

But someone does need to design one of those inflating c'mon things that does that!

[geofflambert]

Orm, I did have one occasion (I got no pics) where there were two red-tailed hawks working like a team trying to catch a squirrel, and there were about four around for them to chase. The squirrels didn't seem overly upset about the hawks (red-tails are among the largest hawks around here) and easily outmaneuvered them repeatedly. One was quite large, a female I presume, the other smaller, either a male or a juvenile. They spent an hour chasing these squirrels around, not with such vigor that they'd be exhausted, though. The next day on my walk to the garage I encountered a squirrel skeleton. There was the spine, parts of the limbs, a bit of the tail but no skull. We do get around here barred owls which are quite large and could easily take a squirrel, but the squirrels usually are in bed by the dusk hour and are quite cautious coming out in the dawn hour. I really hate the squirrels because they do a lot of vandalism of all sorts. I really love the hawks.

edit: I meant to say, it's really difficult to tell various hawk species apart. There's one called the Cooper's hawk where if you get a real clear look at the tail feathers you can identify them. These two hawks could have been among two or three other species, but at one point I heard (and saw) the female call to the other one, and there was absolutely no doubt that they were red-tails.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Orm, I did have one occasion (I got no pics) where there were two red-tailed hawks working like a team trying to catch a squirrel, and there were about four around for them to chase. The squirrels didn't seem overly upset about the hawks (red-tails are among the largest hawks around here) and easily outmaneuvered them repeatedly. One was quite large, a female I presume, the other smaller, either a male or a juvenile. They spent an hour chasing these squirrels around, not with such vigor that they'd be exhausted, though. The next day on my walk to the garage I encountered a squirrel skeleton. There was the spine, parts of the limbs, a bit of the tail but no skull. We do get around here barred owls which are quite large and could easily take a squirrel, but the squirrels usually are in bed by the dusk hour and are quite cautious coming out in the dawn hour. I really hate the squirrels because they do a lot of vandalism of all sorts. I really love the hawks.

edit: I meant to say, it's really difficult to tell various hawk species apart. There's one called the Cooper's hawk where if you get a real clear look at the tail feathers you can identify them. These two hawks could have been among two or three other species, but at one point I heard (and saw) the female call to the other one, and there was absolutely no doubt that they were red-tails.

So you like hawks, eh? Well what is this one? Barred Hawk? Hairy Faced Hawk? Squawk Hawk?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Orm, I did have one occasion (I got no pics) where there were two red-tailed hawks working like a team trying to catch a squirrel, and there were about four around for them to chase. The squirrels didn't seem overly upset about the hawks (red-tails are among the largest hawks around here) and easily outmaneuvered them repeatedly. One was quite large, a female I presume, the other smaller, either a male or a juvenile. They spent an hour chasing these squirrels around, not with such vigor that they'd be exhausted, though. The next day on my walk to the garage I encountered a squirrel skeleton. There was the spine, parts of the limbs, a bit of the tail but no skull. We do get around here barred owls which are quite large and could easily take a squirrel, but the squirrels usually are in bed by the dusk hour and are quite cautious coming out in the dawn hour. I really hate the squirrels because they do a lot of vandalism of all sorts. I really love the hawks.

edit: I meant to say, it's really difficult to tell various hawk species apart. There's one called the Cooper's hawk where if you get a real clear look at the tail feathers you can identify them. These two hawks could have been among two or three other species, but at one point I heard (and saw) the female call to the other one, and there was absolutely no doubt that they were red-tails.

So you like hawks, eh? Well what is this one? Barred Hawk? Hairy Faced Hawk? Squawk Hawk?

Let's not go there, BBfanboy. Let's just not do that today.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Orm, I did have one occasion (I got no pics) where there were two red-tailed hawks working like a team trying to catch a squirrel, and there were about four around for them to chase. The squirrels didn't seem overly upset about the hawks (red-tails are among the largest hawks around here) and easily outmaneuvered them repeatedly. One was quite large, a female I presume, the other smaller, either a male or a juvenile. They spent an hour chasing these squirrels around, not with such vigor that they'd be exhausted, though. The next day on my walk to the garage I encountered a squirrel skeleton. There was the spine, parts of the limbs, a bit of the tail but no skull. We do get around here barred owls which are quite large and could easily take a squirrel, but the squirrels usually are in bed by the dusk hour and are quite cautious coming out in the dawn hour. I really hate the squirrels because they do a lot of vandalism of all sorts. I really love the hawks.

edit: I meant to say, it's really difficult to tell various hawk species apart. There's one called the Cooper's hawk where if you get a real clear look at the tail feathers you can identify them. These two hawks could have been among two or three other species, but at one point I heard (and saw) the female call to the other one, and there was absolutely no doubt that they were red-tails.

So you like hawks, eh? Well what is this one? Barred Hawk? Hairy Faced Hawk? Squawk Hawk?

Let's not go there, BBfanboy. Let's just not do that today.

No comment on policy - just a remark on that mustache (and maybe the eyebrows) that stand out in a crowd! [:)]
The posts about identity of hawks is what touched off that syncopation. I have no intention of going anywhere else with the thought.

[jdsrae]

That moustache does have some serious inwards curl about it

[geofflambert]

He has no tail feathers. Must've got burned off some time ago, I'm thinking. There certainly are a lot of squirrels and other rodents scurrying about for him to prey on. He's certainly going to need the nutrition if he's going to continue growing that upper lip beard.

[Orm]

Thank you, Geoff, for sharing the squirrel story. [:)]

[Lecivius]

So, I came home today to find this guy sitting nice & proud on my fence showing off his 'leet' skills.

[Lecivius]

But when I parked in the garage & came out, he was a bird of a different feather [8D]

[Lecivius]

We have 3 different types of hawks in the neighborhood now that the crows have dried up. I'm not certain if this last guy was a Red Tail that stole the others dinner (but I think it was), or a juvenile just come to mooch off of dad (like any parent with a college kid is intimately familiar with [:D] )

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

So, I came home today to find this guy sitting nice & proud on my fence showing off his 'leet' skills.

I'm pretty sure that's no hawk, that's an osprey.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert


I'm pretty sure that's no hawk, that's an osprey.

Ayup.

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: geofflambert


I'm pretty sure that's no hawk, that's an osprey.

Ayup.

He didn't have the right eye bands for an osprey. They led down, not around to the back. But damnifIknow. And now you have me wondering on the second bird. He seemed damned large for a hawk. And there was a blurb on the news about a nesting pair of Goldens 1 mile away. I didn't think there even where anymore of those around here.