Photo of the Day
Jan 9, 2021 11:30:57 #
Nature at its best. Looks like a squirrel on the menu. Enjoy.
A hawk with his lunch. Canton, OH, USA. Photo by Dick Pratt
A hawk with his lunch. Canton, OH, USA. Photo by Dick Pratt
Jan 9, 2021 11:54:18 #
Jan 9, 2021 11:57:26 #
Awesome picture Gordon, a bird with his prey, how cool is that
Jan 9, 2021 14:47:02 #
Gordon wrote:
Nature at its best. Looks like a squirrel on the menu. Enjoy.
A hawk with his lunch. Canton, OH, USA. Photo by Dick Pratt
A hawk with his lunch. Canton, OH, USA. Photo by Dick Pratt
Beautiful picture Gordon, we've got a few types here, a lot of Red Tails.
Jan 9, 2021 14:54:14 #
Looks like rocky the squirrel zigged when he should have zagged. Thanks G man.
Jan 9, 2021 15:04:21 #
Lee626 wrote:
Awesome picture Gordon, a bird with his prey, how cool is that
Lee here is one I took in my yard. Mississippi Kite with a Crow. He flew off with that huge bird when I tried to get closer. And that crow was screaming.
Jan 9, 2021 15:06:44 #
plumbob wrote:
Looks like rocky the squirrel zigged when he should have zagged. Thanks G man.
Didn't zig fast enough.
Jan 9, 2021 15:15:41 #
Gordon wrote:
Lee here is one I took in my yard. Mississippi Kite with a Crow. He flew off with that huge bird when I tried to get closer. And that crow was screaming.
I didn't know they would attack other birds like that.
Jan 9, 2021 15:30:50 #
Lee626 wrote:
I didn't know they would attack other birds like that.
Yeah Lee,there are several types of Bird Hawks (Accipiters).Sharp-shinned, and Cooper's among others, eat small birds. Kites an a few others eat larger birds.
Jan 9, 2021 15:39:21 #
Fredfish wrote:
Yeah Lee,there are several types of Bird Hawks (Accipiters).Sharp-shinned, and Cooper's among others, eat small birds. Kites an a few others eat larger birds.
That's something i did not know, I'll pass that off as a lesson for the day, thanks for the info Fred
Jan 9, 2021 16:15:54 #
Lee626 wrote:
That's something i did not know, I'll pass that off as a lesson for the day, thanks for the info Fred
We have a Cooper's hawk that likes to visit our feeder back home and it's under a big pin oak tree. I haven't ever seen him get one but he must once in a while or he would not keep coming back.
Jan 9, 2021 16:17:29 #
Lee626 wrote:
That's something i did not know, I'll pass that off as a lesson for the day, thanks for the info Fred
Quick story :I'm walking out of the house to go to work one afternoon (2nd shift) and there's a little blackbird BUGGING OUT,in a lilac bush near my truck. As I got closer to the truck, he took off flying straight away from me, on my left. From the top of the 50ft pine trees on my right,I see a blur like an air-to-air missile. BOOM midair interception by a Cooper's Hawk. A puff of feathers, and the Hawk pulls out of his dive and lands in a white birch tree with the blackbird in his talons. Awesome sight of nature at work.
Jan 10, 2021 06:59:13 #
Gordon wrote:
Lee here is one I took in my yard. Mississippi Kite with a Crow. He flew off with that huge bird when I tried to get closer. And that crow was screaming.
Bird on bird violence...shameful 😉
Jan 10, 2021 07:31:11 #
We have a neighborhood Kestrel who keeps the Mourning Doves in check in my yard. The doves eat the birdseed the other birds scatter on the ground and the Kestrel picks one of them off every couple days. Fun to watch, for sure. He carries them off to a neighbor’s pine tree so I don’t have to deal with the carcasses. Every once in a while he snatches a sparrow in mid-flight, too. Love to watch Nature in action.
Jan 10, 2021 08:26:50 #
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