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Omaha Steve

(99,494 posts) Sun Aug 7, 2016, 06:23 PM Aug 2016

First bird photo in months...Cooper's Hawk additional photo stalking our song birds

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I thought this was a Red-tailed Hawk. Marta said nope. After looking it up, I'm not sure what kind of Hawk this is. I was lucky to even get this bad photo taken. Marta was cooking. My left hand is still in a therapy cast from my July 5th thumb reconstruction surgery..

Here he is,

OS

UPDATE: Apparently he is setting up shop to hunt in our back yard.

Look dead center of the photo.

That is him sitting in Fontenelle Forest looking into our back yard feeders : http://www.fontenelleforest.org/ that has a new raptor recovery unit: http://www.fontenelleforest.org/post/raptor-woodland-refuge-opens-on-july-16-copy

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First bird photo in months...Cooper's Hawk additional photo stalking our song birds (Original Post) Omaha Steve Aug 2016 OP

Cooper's hawk. New Orleans Strong Aug 2016 #1

We have a Cooper's Hawk that hunts a field I can see from Arkansas Granny Aug 2016 #2

New Orleans Strong

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1. Cooper's hawk.

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Sun Aug 7, 2016, 06:32 PM

Aug 2016

Beautiful!

Arkansas Granny

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2. We have a Cooper's Hawk that hunts a field I can see from

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Sun Aug 7, 2016, 06:48 PM

Aug 2016

my office at work. It cruises back and forth a few feet above the grass and brush and then will suddenly drop in a short dive to catch prey. At times it hovers briefly as it hunts.

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