Supper time vistor.

[oldsparkey]

Down here we never know who or what is going to show up for supper , much less sit on the top of the umbrella in the back yard.

We have a mating pair of them that likes to roost in the pine tree in the back yard. They are getting tame or just use to us , will sit out there and let us get within 30 feet of them.

Chuck.

 

[Ozark]

That's cool Chuck. A few years back when I lived in the old house there were a pair of Gouse hawks that nested in a big Sycamore tree. They raised two little ones and when they flew from the nest for the first time they landed in the old play ground behind the school. I took my lawn chair out under a tree and sat and watched those two for hours chasing grasshoppers and bugs. What a great feeling that was to be so close to them.

 

[Kayak Jack]

Don't look much like a pterodactyl or a mocking bird - what kinda hawk is it?

 

[islandpiper]

Chuck......interesting, very interesting.......you set your hat down and a bird 'lights on it. That hat matches your good Leisure Suit, right?

piper

 

[oldyaker]

Great pix Chuck....looks like snowy owl feathers almost. Nice oranges too!

Had about a dozen white tail in the yard last night, no antlers, most have fallen off by now.

 

[Commodore]

I've read and have been told that in Florida if you can't identify a particular hawk, in most cases it is a Red shouldered Hawk. It looks ike one anyway Commodore

 

[oldsparkey]

Chuck......interesting, very interesting.......you set your hat down and a bird 'lights on it. That hat matches your good Leisure Suit, right?

piper

Piper
I have several leisure suits and all of them are in good shape except for the fact they have shrunk over the years , I haven't. :lol:

Jack , it is one of them hawks with feathers on it ,( Not from Studebaker/Packard Cars) we call them Marsh Hawks. :roll: Some folks call them Coopers Hawks.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBi ... _Hawk.html

Chuck.

 

[Kayak Jack]

Kinda young to ID yet as a specific type, I guess.

Cooper, huh? Don't look much like James Fenimore. But then he's been dead a few years now.

 

[oldyaker]

We have Cooper Hawks here.....they seem to be darker than the Southern version.

 

[oldsparkey]

We have Cooper Hawks here.....they seem to be darker than the Southern version.

Ours are lighter since we have more sunshine and less overcast , gray , nasty, snowy days.

Chuck.

 

[Jimmy W]

Cooper's Hawks do sometimes feed around houses and bird feeders, but this doesn't seem to have the reddish banding on the chest of a Cooper's. I would go with the Commodore and say that it is probably the pale Florida subspecies of the Red Shouldered Hawk. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Red-shouldered_Hawk_dtl.html
The adult male Harrier (Marsh hawk) has a plain underside like that, but rarely perches higher than a low fencepost.

 

[Kayak Jack]

Nice cite, Jimmy. I noted : "... Although the American Crow often mobs the Red-shouldered Hawk, sometimes the relationship is not so one-sided. ..."

I watched some red-winged black birds going after an osprey one time on the Au Sable. I thought, "Enjoy it today, little fellows. One day soon, you'll be flying along all self-satisfied like, when all of a sudden, coming down out of the sun at about 60 miles an hour, something will hit your back and SMACK! you will go to birdy heaven."

 

[catfish]

hey sparky nice pic & like yak said looks like a nice crop of vitamin c . i,ll take a dozen of em with my gritz.