I'd like some help identifying this bird. Looks like a Cooper's Hawk, or maybe a Sharp-Shinned Hawk.
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Cooper's Hawk, Sharp-Shinned Hawk, or something else?
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Last: 1 yr ago by combat wombat™
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Coloration looks like a Cooper's. But that dark block head sort of looks like a Broad Winged I would have to look that one up.
Merlin says it's a red-shouldered hawk and I think I agree. Here's a photo for comparison:
I thought this was going to be a steakhouse/wine question......
Red shouldered hawk
Red shouldered hawk
If I've learned anything from the OB the answer is clearly rat snake.
Let's go, Brandon!
Red shouldered Aoudad.
Might be a red tailed, bald headed dikfer!
Red shouldered for sure
Thanks for all of the responses - serious and otherwise. I had some laughs.
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Not much to do with the pic or thread. But, I was in my backyard a few years ago talking with a neighbor. Out of nowhere a semi large hawk swooshes by, overhead, grabs a dove, takes it to the ground and commences to pluck feathers and tear skin. Happened in seconds. We / I had never seen anything like that. I was told it was a sharp shunned hawk. 
An old neighbor called me over to help get a bird out of their house, said it looked like it was a baby bird and the mom was outside trying to help it. Nope it was a dove and a red tailed hawk was chasing after it.
I love watching raptors do raptor things. We used to have a tiny dog. One day I let her out front real quick. Opened the door to let her back in and see a hawk swooping right toward the house. Dog was nearly a hawk meal.Hamburger Dan said:
Not much to do with the pic or thread. But, I was in my backyard a few years ago talking with a neighbor. Out of nowhere a semi large hawk swooshes by, overhead, grabs a dove, takes it to the ground and commences to pluck feathers and tear skin. Happened in seconds. We / I had never seen anything like that. I was told it was a sharp shunned hawk.
Let's go, Brandon!
My son was practicing his casting in our back yard, don't remember what lure he had on the end of the line. A Mississippi kite dive-bombed it several times though. He texted me about it, so I went outside to watch and it happened again. That was pretty cool for me.
This time of year, our golf course is littered with piles of dove feathers, and the squirrels are not nearly so bold.P.U.T.U said:
An old neighbor called me over to help get a bird out of their house, said it looked like it was a baby bird and the mom was outside trying to help it. Nope it was a dove and a red tailed hawk was chasing after it.
Being in TexAgs jail changes a man……..no, not really
I've seen one do that with a grackle (or some generic-looking black bird) in a parking lot. Poor bird was alive while it got plucked.Hamburger Dan said:
Not much to do with the pic or thread. But, I was in my backyard a few years ago talking with a neighbor. Out of nowhere a semi large hawk swooshes by, overhead, grabs a dove, takes it to the ground and commences to pluck feathers and tear skin. Happened in seconds. We / I had never seen anything like that. I was told it was a sharp shunned hawk.
Man my ornithology class fails me more and more. Dr. Arnold would not be proud. I use to pick these out on site. Going with red shouldered.
combat wombat said:I've seen one do that with a grackle (or some generic-looking black bird) in a parking lot. Poor bird was alive while it got plucked.Hamburger Dan said:
Not much to do with the pic or thread. But, I was in my backyard a few years ago talking with a neighbor. Out of nowhere a semi large hawk swooshes by, overhead, grabs a dove, takes it to the ground and commences to pluck feathers and tear skin. Happened in seconds. We / I had never seen anything like that. I was told it was a sharp shunned hawk.
"Poor bird" and "grackle" do not belong in the same sentence, or paragraph for that matter.
Noisy menaces, the lot of em.
Used to have a big flock of snow geese that wintered on our farm and the neighboring farms every year in Se Tx. Thousands of them would come in December and stay thru March, roosting on a neighbors secluded 125 acre irrigation reservoir and feeding on surrounding fields in a 6 mile radius. Around 12 years ago we started getting bald eagle nests in the area and they would feed on the geese occasionally.
One of the coolest things I've seen in nature was an eagle fly into the flock of geese he had scared up and take one from the flock a couple hundred yards high. The eagle took a snow by the head with its talons and both birds fell 20 yards or so until the eagle released its kill. After the snow fell to the ground straight below, another eagle that had been perched in a nearby big tree joined the killer in the meal. I would often scout the birds to establish feeding patterns for upcoming hunts and happened to be watching nearby with good binoculars.
One of the coolest things I've seen in nature was an eagle fly into the flock of geese he had scared up and take one from the flock a couple hundred yards high. The eagle took a snow by the head with its talons and both birds fell 20 yards or so until the eagle released its kill. After the snow fell to the ground straight below, another eagle that had been perched in a nearby big tree joined the killer in the meal. I would often scout the birds to establish feeding patterns for upcoming hunts and happened to be watching nearby with good binoculars.
I saw a redtail hawk nail a cardinal that was in flight. The puff of red feathers made it look like it was hit by a missile.
red shouldered hawk
Got to add my story here:
Wife and I were sitting out back around sunset, watching the bats come out and fly over the neighborhood pools, getting their fill.
All of the sudden, a hawk of some sort, swoops in mid air and nails a bat. Both go tumbling, falling about 10-15 feet, before the hawk rights itself and gains altitude with a meal in it's talons.
We both just stared at each other with eyes and mouth wide open, thinking "did that just happen?!"
Wife and I were sitting out back around sunset, watching the bats come out and fly over the neighborhood pools, getting their fill.
All of the sudden, a hawk of some sort, swoops in mid air and nails a bat. Both go tumbling, falling about 10-15 feet, before the hawk rights itself and gains altitude with a meal in it's talons.
We both just stared at each other with eyes and mouth wide open, thinking "did that just happen?!"
I have had huge red tailed hawks attempt to and once succeed in killing one of my chickens. I once ran one of that had all but killed a full grown Rhode Island rooster I had, and they're not exactly small birds.
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Since this has turned into hawk story time: One summer evening a couple years back, we and multiple neighbors were having a little block party out in the front yards/driveways of a couple houses. just chilling and grilling. kids are running around out front. all of the sudden we hear this high pitched "scream" i guess. all the parents of course turn and think its one of theirs, but lo and behold, a hawk had pinned a rabbit in its talons in the yard right next to us, no more than 30 ft away. i swear that hawked look at us for a solid second like "what?", then took off.....towards the middle of me and my next door neighbors yard. i turned to him and said, i think that hawk's about to have his feast in one of our yards, thinking our grass was going to be littered with fur.
nope. he decided to take him and have his bunny dinner ON TOP of my AC unit. walked home a couple hours later to fur and entrails scattered and draped over the evaporating unit. that was fun to clean up.
nope. he decided to take him and have his bunny dinner ON TOP of my AC unit. walked home a couple hours later to fur and entrails scattered and draped over the evaporating unit. that was fun to clean up.
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America's destiny is not of our own choosing. We did not seek nor did we provoke an assault on our freedom and our way of life. We did not expect nor did we invite a confrontation with evil. Yet the true measure of a people's strength is how they rise to master that moment when it does arrive.
Since this is now the hawk thread. I saw this redtail hawk flying off with a rat last week after I surprised him coming around the corner on the trail. Fortunately, I had my camera at the ready.
I can see the little mousie feets.
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