I saw a bird

[LeeSlikkers]

;D Sorry, I had too....this section looked terribly lonely and unimportant so I thought I'd jump start it

Lee

[Weasel]

Wise @$$

[LeeSlikkers]

moi??? ;D

[Minca]

I think I can contribute to this. ;D
Around here I don't figure that it's actually Spring until the Osprey and Turkey Vultures show up since they are highly migratory in these parts. Well, they showed up about a week ago and were still getting night frosts and hail. Go figure. A redtail flew low by my house just yesturday with some crows on it's tail, which is a bit unusual since I live way up in wooded hills across the street from an old clear cut. The redtails usually just pass over real high since there's nothing here for them.
Up until recently I had mostly been seeing male RTs but the females are starting to arrive now. Crows and starlings are carring nesting materials around, and the pheasant is back making his territorial calls again.
well......that's what's going on around here.


edit..... just thought I'd specify that I posted this when I still lived in Wa...... ;D

[SkyRider]

I saw the freaking biggest RT I have ever seen in my life a week ago. My dad and I are both fairly good at guessing the raptor from the size at a distance and we were about 1/2 mile away from this RT. It was so big, we both called golden eagle on it. We whipped out the binoculars and both just about wet ourselves. The thing was HUGE! Only problem is, it had a red tail Oh well, maybe it'll have kiddos ;D

[kenbro77]

I saw a bird, ;D
As most of you can figure out I am new to this, and have always watched birds with enjoyment, but now I get down right excited. Especially what I saw yesterday on my way home from work. It was on a long, winding, but wide country road. I saw a Red Tail hover about 100 feet up. I watched in amazement, when all of a sudden it tucked its wing into a dive. I looked on the ground at what I think was a field mouse, and just knew it was dead meat. However the RT missed its prey, but I was excited nun the less.
:-[Any way I had to tell someone.

[Weasel]

It will seem like you see raptor activity everywhere now that your interest in Falconry has piqued. I remember the first day that I went to visit Yarak (my sponsor) and when I got home that evening, I pulled into the driveway only to see a Coopers hawk kill a grakle in the neighbors lawn. It sat there for a minute with it as it looked around and then flew off with it's catch.....It took me several minutes to blink and lift my bottom jaw.
It seems I see something raptor related on a daily basis, be it a red tail stooping into the brush or a kestrel eating a grasshopper on a power line.
Yesterday I found an approxiamte location for another coops nest. I went mountain biking in an area that is seldom traveled in the woods when all of a sudden I see a flash of feathers right in front of me as a tiercel coops rises off the trail. I think I bumped him off a kill, so I followed him as best I could until finally he dissapeared into the canopy. I wandered around looking for whitewash on the forest floor, but no luck. Then, about two minutes later, I heard the distinct kak-kak-kak-kak-kak of a coopers hawk over by the rivers edge. I went over there just in time to see a male and female coops mob an RT who was flying low to the river. I never did see where they went as they followed the RT around a bend in the river, but they must be in the area!
Cheers,
Weasel

[hoseheadwork]

Saw what was obviously a very young coopers on the way home last night. It was perched on a wire by my drive. Sat there watching it from about 10 feet away for about a minute while it screamed. Finally flew to the woods about fifty feet away. Decided to leave before disturbing the area anymore. Hopefully they'll be nesting in the same area next year. Kurt

[kenbro77]

Driving to lunch today I saw a rt chasing a cicada. It wasn't doing a very good job of it. Than out of the tree flies a sparrow and chases the rt away. ???Thats just wrong.