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11-10-2010, 03:49 PM
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WG Operations, Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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Hawk
I think this is a hawk of some kind. Can anyone tell me what bird this is?
  
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11-10-2010, 05:07 PM
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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The same one that chased your woodpecker away..
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11-10-2010, 07:11 PM
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WG Operations, Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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11-10-2010, 07:56 PM
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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That's a GREAT pile then!
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11-10-2010, 08:54 PM
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WG Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA
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I'm not so sure it's a great pile - if you mean wood pile as in you bring the wood into your house. Here birdie, birdie. Eat all the insects before I bring them inside!
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11-10-2010, 09:05 PM
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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Could be a Cooper's Hawk... Here are a couple shots of one in my neighborhood. Does it look similar?
 
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11-10-2010, 10:36 PM
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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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It is either a Cooper's Hawk or a Sharp shinned hawk. They are very hard to tell apart. I have a Cooper's Hawk that regularly dines on the house sparrows at my feeder. Do you have a bird feeder nearby? *big grins*
Great pictures, btw. |
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11-11-2010, 01:27 AM
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WG Operations, Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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I think it's probably a Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)
bridget is right though, the Cooper's Hawk and the Sharp Shinned Hawk do look very similar. |
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11-11-2010, 12:24 PM
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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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Saw a coopers this morning while walking the dog! How cool is that! I love when I talk about something and then that something shows up soon afterwards!
He was hunting the pigeons in my neighborhood. Someone must have told them he was coming, because they flew off before he even had a chance! His crop looked distended, so maybe he wasn't very hungry!
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11-11-2010, 02:11 PM
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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Sharp-shinned have pencil-thin legs and are smaller; Cooper's have a flatter head. It is difficult to decide though unless they are side-by-side!
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