A truly beautiful bird! You captured very nice feather details.
Doug Herr, "The Bird Man of Sacramento", would have been proud to claim
that one.
On 4/19/20 11:39 PM, Moose wrote:
On 4/18/2020 8:05 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
I've had a few stunned birds fall on my patio, after striking the
picture window. This window is near a corner in an L-shaped house.
A few years ago, an enterprising sharp-shinned hawk figured out that,
if he hid in bushes along the fence, and flew toward the feeders when
birds were there, they would fly into the window trying to escape,
and he would scoop one up and be gone. I finally had to let the
feeders sit empty for a month before he moved on somewhere else.
Why do we penalize the clever ones? :-)
We had the reverse situation. Where we have our feeders is narrow for
maneuvering by sparrow hawks. A Coopers Hawk crashed into a window
there with a mighty thud. We assume it was trying to catch a bird from
the feeders and mistook a reflection for a bird.
It was able to fly to a nearby branch, then sat there for a while,
getting it's bearing again. Long enough for me to run for camera and
take some photos. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22581>
A print hangs on a wall here.
Opportunity Knocks Moose
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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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