Hawk

[ysabetwordsmith]

I posted a picture and news about the hawk in our yard. 

Comments

[silver_chipmunk]

Lovely!

Ooh!

[jtthomas]

Looks to be a red-tailed, after zooming in. The belly band is surprisingly visible!

Probably changed trees from a change in the wind.

Re: Ooh!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yes, the hawks we have here are redtails.

We also have vultures, kestrels, and great-horned owls. There are fewer barn owls than there used to be.

Re: Ooh!

[jtthomas]

Okay, you've got me hooked. Special interest in large birds is a thing. (rabbit holes for a little while, then remembers that I have things to do)

Near my parents' house, about three years ago, there was a group of at least a hundred vultures. We ended up watching a couple of them fight on the roof of an ex-one-room-schoolhouse a street over from us while another forty or so looked on. We've got hawks and possibly a couple nests of golden eagles around because we're pretty rural, but the vultures were a bit crazy at that point. They've died down in the years since, though.

Re: Ooh!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Okay, you've got me hooked. Special interest in large birds is a thing. <<

I love them too. We have a walnut tree that's been hit by lightning so the uppermost branches are dead, and they love to perch there. They also like several other walnut trees for the open branches.

>> Near my parents' house, about three years ago, there was a group of at least a hundred vultures. <<

Wow! I think the most I've seen was between one and two dozen.

[alisanne]

How very cool!

Very Pretty

[scrubjayspeaks]

The mistiness and all those jagged branches remind me of brush paintings on old, dark paper.

Re: Very Pretty

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yeah, it was a cloudy, hazy day here today so the outdoors was kind of shades of gray.

[cmcmck]

Stunning!

We get red kites circling above the woodland here.