Had a nice hawk come to the garden today. They say that they know where every feeding station is in their area. Coopers hawk female. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
She is lovely. Do they eat regular bird food at the feeding stations? Or are they eating what is feeding (trying to put that nicely...)? The other day driving home from work I saw about 15, maybe a few more, hawks flying around in circles over an area that is near the water. It was an odd sight. Flying very high in the air.
Nice shot there is a hawk that is always around my place looking for small games like lizards and frogs. Sometimes it takes a break on my TV aerial and always when I get my camera it would be off again. Hope one day I would be able to take a pic of it.
Fantastic shot! I'd love to be able to capture the Hawks here like that. Daisybeans, the birds you saw circling were probably Turkey Vultures. Huge birds, awesome in flight but U-G-L-Y up close!
Netty, how can you say they are ugly, just look at this cute face. Turkey Vulture ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
I love Hawks, we get quite a few wandering the neighborhood looking for birds, small dogs, annoying children We found a dead one in my garden last week. We think one of the neighbor boys with a BB gun shot it, we don't know if it fell into my garden or if the kid got scared and placed it there so his parents wouldn't find it. We buried it out in the backyard.
I like hawks, and your lady is beautiful. We haven't got many of them here and I always enjoy seeing them.
I know what turkey vultures look like... I don't know ... they sure looked like hawks in the way they flew without flapping ... and had fringes on their wings... but maybe turkey vultures fly in the same way?
Our Sparrowhawks are still paying regular visits to our garden. I really think they do know every feeding station in the area where they can pick up an easy meal. Can't blame them as I'd do the same in their place. Another fantastic shot kildale. :-D Can you imagine what the world would be like if we didn't have scavengers like your Turkey Vulture around? They are such expert 'cleaners' and without them we'd have all that rotting flesh causing disease lying around. Doesn't bear thinking of does it?
We have Redtail hawks here and they get huge. The biggest I have seen was about 2 ft tall and a wing span of about 3 ft. I have seen them pick a fox squirrel out of the top of a tree before. Last year I had one land on the rail of the front deck, but of course my camera was nowhere near! When I was a kid we always called they chicken hawks. They have been known to lift a full grown chicken off the ground and have a feast.
We always called them chicken hawks too. But now Netty's comment has me really curious about whether the birds I saw the other day were hawks or turkey vultures.... Whenever I see turkey vultures, there are more than a few together... Does anyone know if hawks would fly together in a group that large? And I agree with Eileen on the turkey vulture's work -- it's an important job, not one I'd ever want, but somebody's gotta do it!
