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04/07/2007 07:19:04 PM · #1 |
This afternoon I looked out the window to the back garden and saw this hawk sitting on top of a shrub. I called for Joe to come see and I started taking pictures of it through the window. I took dozens of photos and was hoping to get some pictures of it flying away. I got Joe to open the door to the deck in hopes of getting that but it didn't fly away. Then I opened the window and it still didn't fly away. So I took more pictures, this time through the open window. All of my pictures looked the same and I still thought it would be cool to get a picture of it flying so we got my book of bird calls and started pressing the button for different hawk calls. The hawk still didn't move! I thought the sounds of the birds would make it fly away. It would turn it's head but not much more than that. Then I thought I would walk out on the deck, thinking that for sure it would fly away. I went out on the deck and was leaning over the railing taking pictures of it, I was only about 6 feet away from it. It stayed there for the longest time and I got dozens of really close pictures of it. Eventually it did fly away but I was very pleased with the photos I got, this is the closest I have ever been to a hawk.
 
 
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04/07/2007 07:43:43 PM · #2 |
| excellent pictures of the hawk karen .. he was certainly in the right place at the right time!!! |
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04/07/2007 09:16:36 PM · #3 |
| Excellent photos! Very crisp and well balanced. |
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04/07/2007 09:26:58 PM · #4 |
Beautiful! I get so excited when I get a chance to take a picture of a hawk, but I have not gotten anything as nice as these! Thanks for sharing. Now if only it had been at night and there were a chain around the hawk's neck....
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04/07/2007 09:45:58 PM · #5 |
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04/07/2007 09:57:10 PM · #6 |
You've got to be kidding me! Guess what was in my backyard today. I had to check your profile to make sure we weren't neighbors. My daughter yelled upstairs that there was a hawk in the backyard, so I grabbed my old camera and shot him without opening the window. Then I went to get my better camera and was hoping I could get the window open without spooking him, but he took off before I made the switch. He must have been checking out the morning doves that frequent the feeder.
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04/07/2007 09:58:34 PM · #7 |
It's standing on something. Was it eating anything when you took the pictures? Maybe that's why it wouldn't fly.
They're /great/ pictures. Better than a world class wildlife book.
I'm really into nature and animals so I like these alot.
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04/07/2007 10:30:40 PM · #8 |
Wow! Lucky you, Karen. And nice pics, too! :)
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04/07/2007 10:37:58 PM · #9 |
Karen your shots couldn't be any better. Scrum yours is nice too. Sharpies are migrating north now. I had this one come through the other afternoon while we were roasting hotdogs on the grill. It caught a house sparrow in front of us. Wish I could have had as good as results as your shots.
Van
Message edited by author 2007-04-07 22:38:46. |
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04/07/2007 10:38:22 PM · #10 |
| Cool story.. beautiful pictures. |
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04/07/2007 10:42:40 PM · #11 |
Wow. Lots of hawk pictures.
I wish I could run into some sort of cool animal.
..I've seen several eagles lately.. Very camera shy eagles. :/ |
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04/07/2007 10:48:14 PM · #12 |
Thanks everyone! I saw that thing on the shrub, not sure what it is (Joe says a dried leaf, I say doggie poo). The hawk wasn't eating anything while I was watching him. He turned his head a bit, twice he turned around and he preened his feathers. There were actually 2 small birds in the trees (a junco and a goldfinch) and he didn't even go after them. And they didn't seem to notice him.
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04/07/2007 10:52:28 PM · #13 |
| It kinda did look like droppings of some sort.. Good thing he wasn't eating them.. |
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04/07/2007 10:53:50 PM · #14 |
Amazing shots!
I can't help but wonder about the netting. Is it possible that the hawk had been caught in it and didn't fly because it didn't think it could escape? |
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04/07/2007 10:56:03 PM · #15 |
| That sounds possible to me.. Maybe it was trying to stand still waiting for prey? |
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04/07/2007 11:02:30 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by greatandsmall:
Amazing shots!
I can't help but wonder about the netting. Is it possible that the hawk had been caught in it and didn't fly because it didn't think it could escape? |
I don't think it was caught in the netting. It turned completely around/changed position twice while I was watching it.
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04/07/2007 11:13:16 PM · #17 |
Sometimes after a hawk makes an attemp at a kill, if they miss they will sit and catch their breath and then return to the hunt. If you all ever want tosee a great migration of hawks, try Cap May Point about the 1st week of October. You will probable see at least 1000+ sharpies in a day that week and another 1000+ American Kestrels. Plus up to a hundred Osprey, Coopers, Broad-wingeds, Red-taileds, Merlins, and a few Peregrines. I spent a month there in the 80s counting hawks. At the end of the month I counted over 35,000+ individuals.
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04/08/2007 04:09:43 PM · #18 |
This site has another Sharp Shin from Newfoundland. Not half as good as  KarenNfld and it won POTD.
POTD |
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04/08/2007 04:27:26 PM · #19 |
Scrum,
I bet that was a noisy few seconds. Nice shot. |
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04/08/2007 04:28:31 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by scrum8:
This site has another Sharp Shin from Newfoundland. Not half as good as KarenNfld and it won POTD.
POTD |
Yes, I saw that on a local photo newsgroup, he was lucky to get that shot!
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04/08/2007 04:35:41 PM · #21 |
Your back yard is a bird paradise. Great shots!
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04/08/2007 04:39:17 PM · #22 |
Some of the Best Pictures I have seen Karen.
The Quality is First Class.
Well Done Bonnie Lass !
Joe |
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04/08/2007 05:17:16 PM · #23 |
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04/08/2007 09:24:41 PM · #24 |
Another Starling bites the dust! Originally posted by vtruan:
Scrum,
I bet that was a noisy few seconds. Nice shot. |
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