gotta love the drama we might witness out there, waaay better than the telly =)
and you could get so lucky as to be hit in the head by a Barred Owl, yeeeeouch, or have a goshawk rip the hat off your head if you’re too close to their nest 😉
over the years we’ve (loosely? informally?) referred to the beasties as nocturnal and diurnal raptors…
That’s kind of you, Larry. I had excellent, close views of the birds and recorded their calls at length, but lacked even modest experience. 🙂
Aren’t owls and hawks more or less on the same side separated by day and night? As I watched these Cooper’s Hawks, they flushed a great horned owl out of a black locust and chased it away in close pursuit. It was a real-time drama.
At least you know to correct your misidentification, Ceredig. When I claimed to have seen a couple of Cooper’s Hawks at Foote Park recently, it took an eBird moderator to set me straight and correctly identify them as Cooper’s Hawks. I’d concur with John, that those are some terrific shots of the shore crowd.
Also, for those who miss the defunct BirdTrax widget that showed
the latest eBird sightings I found a replacement for notable
sightings developed by Ed Norton called BirdFinder. It is
displayed on the Sightings-News-Events
page of Idaho Birds.
