For this which I am about to receive,
make me truly thankful!
I love my hawks; though, I prefer not to watch them eat. They need to live, too!
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I do hate nature in the raw and prefer to sugar coat the uglier sides of life. But your hawk is a handsome noble creature and you continue to capture his eternal beauty.
Yeah, tooth and claw is not really my cup of tea, but I do love these majestic creatures. Funny, I still have a folder in my pictures of a night heron eating a gosling. I can’t look at it unless I put my fingers up to cover the carnage, but I can’t bring myself to get rid of it because it is a magnificent bird.
Wow… wow….wow!
He was such a cooperative subject. It was interesting that my big collie was out in the yard, and he did not intimidate this bird at all. He just stayed, scouting the pickin’s.
Really? I can’t believe a large collie wouldn’t intimidate him even a little. But man, all you gotta do is look into the eye of that bird. Silly question, but can you tell if it’s a male or female?
I have no idea! I assume he is wearing a manly tux.
I hope you do not mind me popping an answer to your gender question. Size is the only way to tell the difference between male and female, so you’d need to see a pair together. Females are always larger than the males. This is true for most, if not all raptors.
Really. I didn’t know the females would be large. We have had some nice sized Cooper’s. I wonder if they were all female. So the coloring will be the same?
Yes, the coloring is exactly the same. It is possible, but I cannot say for sure if yours is female. If you can catch one to weigh and measure it.
I have an easier time with ages of raptors since they have different markings. Genders on the other hand…
I’ll let you know if I catch one.
Ah, thank you! How interesting!! I thought it would have to do with their plumage.
Apparently, coloring is the same for the Coopers, unlike a lot of birds where the male is more colorful.
he is a beauty!
A welcome visitor to me.
Funny, we were just talking about it.
Nifty pics.
Always fun to look up from my computer and see him.
Very nice. My latest Cooper’s photos are pretty icky. The bird was backlit. But at least they were recognizable. It was not the inexperienced young’n we had earlier.
It is very polite of this one to sit on the fence in direct line of my window by the computer. It probably helps to have the feeders right there, too.
Striking!
He probably was “striking” but thankfully I missed that part.
I love these photos, looks like you’ve captured his personality – a bit of a thinker when he’s not scouting for prey!
Did you say stinker? Oh, thinker!
So were there House sparrows below the bird was peering at in the first shot?
They had just been there. That’s where the feeders are. But at that time, they were in hiding.
Glad you caught the bird. They often don’t sit for long! It looks like a Cooper’s? I have a hard time telling the difference between them and the Sharp-shinned. Cornell has a great article on the difference. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/AboutBirdsandFeeding/accipiterIDtable.htm
Nice capture!!!
For some reason they dally a bit here. My computer desk window is the only window I clean . . . regularly.
So I am at the ready as I work at my computer, but even still, they take plenty of time to scout the territory.
hello, ms. lily… i have a suspicion that he has come to love those photo sessions, hehe
Maybe a glory hound.
hahaha.
waving…
nah, the photographer’s too persistent. the proud bird has relented, ahaha.
happy weekend, ms. liliy…
You, too.