I found some raptors yesterday

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:28 pm

I caught all these in about an hours drive in the farm country of my area.
http://www.ebparks.org/files/Common_Raptors.pdf

Red tailed hawk

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turkey vulture

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white tailed kite

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cybotron r_9 · Post by **cybotron r_9** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:25 am

nice find

OSULLY · Post by **OSULLY** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:56 pm

Great pics, I have a hawk that preys on the birds at my feeder but I've never gotten a pic or even a good look at it.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:53 am

OSULLY wrote:Great pics, I have a hawk that preys on the birds at my feeder but I've never gotten a pic or even a good look at it.

You ever see them in action when they bag little birds? We have quite a few Kestrel Hawks up this way, when you put up a bird feeder you can sure tell when a Kestrel Hawk has found your yard.

tao_jones · Post by **tao_jones** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:14 am

Awesome photos.

OSULLY · Post by **OSULLY** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:04 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:You ever see them in action when they bag little birds? We have quite a few Kestrel Hawks up this way, when you put up a bird feeder you can sure tell when a Kestrel Hawk has found your yard.

It shows up a few times a week, there is quite a bit of brush near by so the small birds don't go far. All I've seen is an altmost black back with white under feathers showing through. I need a new pair of glasses and have been procrastinating. My feeder is 4 feet outside my window so the bird isn't in view long.

cybotron r_9 · Post by **cybotron r_9** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:13 pm

Where I use to live we had a nice size back yard with a huge oak tree in the middle and about a dozen bird feeders, we had hawks come through every day, one Saturday we counted six times a Hawk came through the yard looking for lunch.

Once I set up my chair in the back corner of the yard with my camera and had a Hawk hit a dove 3 feet in front of me, too quick to get any shots but man that was exciting as He!!