Guarding the Bird Feeder
Mar 11, 2017 16:52:34 #
A Juvenile Coopers Hawk standing watch over the bird feeders waiting for his next meal
Mar 11, 2017 17:06:35 #
Mar 12, 2017 08:12:57 #
Mar 12, 2017 10:05:21 #
Ron 717 wrote:
A Juvenile Coopers Hawk standing watch over the bird feeders waiting for his next meal
My aunt and uncle lived on a private lake and always fed the birds off their deck. They had large sliding glass doors for the view of the lake from the house....every once in a while a bird would fly into the glass and knock itself out. One such day my aunt went onto the deck to render aid to a bird that had done exactly that. As she reached for the small bird laying on the deck, a hawk swooped down suddenly and snatched the unconscious bird from her grasp and retreated to have breakfast.
Mar 12, 2017 12:14:47 #
Ron 717 wrote:
A Juvenile Coopers Hawk standing watch over the bird feeders waiting for his next meal
Mar 12, 2017 16:17:06 #
Ron 717 wrote:
A Juvenile Coopers Hawk standing watch over the bird feeders waiting for his next meal
Beautiful!!!!
Mar 12, 2017 19:46:07 #
imntrt1 wrote:
My aunt and uncle lived on a private lake and always fed the birds off their deck. They had large sliding glass doors for the view of the lake from the house....every once in a while a bird would fly into the glass and knock itself out. One such day my aunt went onto the deck to render aid to a bird that had done exactly that. As she reached for the small bird laying on the deck, a hawk swooped down suddenly and snatched the unconscious bird from her grasp and retreated to have breakfast.
We have 8 feeders outside our sun room which has 15 windows, about a dozen birds a day fly into the windows, some do get knocked out or dazed. A couple have been killed which is sad. We also have dozens of squirrels that feed off the ground under the feeders, for whatever reason they will spook and run up a tree which scares the birds and that's when they hit windows.
Mar 12, 2017 20:06:41 #
imntrt1 wrote:
My aunt and uncle lived on a private lake and always fed the birds off their deck. They had large sliding glass doors for the view of the lake from the house....every once in a while a bird would fly into the glass and knock itself out. One such day my aunt went onto the deck to render aid to a bird that had done exactly that. As she reached for the small bird laying on the deck, a hawk swooped down suddenly and snatched the unconscious bird from her grasp and retreated to have breakfast.
I had one do almost that yesterday. I was going to the garage and a bird flew out of the bush with a dead quail in its talons. It was a small hawk/falcon unable to continue take off with the quail so dropped it in front of me.
It was too fast for me to identify the bird of prey. Maybe a kestrel or sharp shinned hawk. It wasn't larger than the quail.
Mar 12, 2017 20:25:38 #
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