out there?

Not really raptor watch, but for many years, my wife and I would take 300-400 mile drives on a weekend with a box full of live mice and raptor traps, just trapping and banding (ringing and flinging) raptors. Too, because we had a couple hundred owl nest boxes, we would also band dozens (some years hundreds) of near-fledgeling owlets during the summer. We still map nests and do night hooting surveys in the spring, but no longer do the capture/banding. I really miss it. Most of what we were banding were boreal, great grey, and northern hawk owls.

That is great, neat critters and real killers......jk

I am curios what a raptor trap looks like

had 9 turkey vultures watching my back door yesterday from the tree tops

I used mainly a modified bal-chatri trap. Google it if interested.

I saw a bald eagle this morning on my drive into work...

We have a red shoulder hawk pair nesting at our condo property. The nest is in a mature white oak. The same nest has been used for at least ten years. The hawks are setting now. Favorite food for for new chicks is snake. Lots. Of squirrel and chipmunks on the property.

Great pic, Jack. Looks like such fun.

Here's my little guy...he bumped the window so I brought him inside to warm up and see if he was ok, which he was. This was years ago. My Pygmy Owl. Love seeing him around. He has eyes on the back of his head , makes him look as if he is watching everywhere . He was soon perching in the trees and chasing birds minutes later.

Eagles are all over . Some Goshawks around too.

Still have Cooper's Hawks feeding from my bird feeders. Redtails all around the house in dead trees and telephone poles hunting the vineyards. Bald eagles at the Creeks and lake Erie hunting fish and patrolling for carrion. First turkey vultures should be this week

Perigrine

I saw turkey vultures the last couple days. There was a report of a Gyrfalcon terrorizing the waterfowl near Seneca Falls

Sage grouse

Great picture Gulo.
Two best friends Bob Nero + Herb Copeland and his student Jim Duncan are the two Manitoba banders that I look up to in the same banding birds. Now that Jim has retired he and wife are chasing as we speak. 18-19' Winter was special for them ringing. Because of low fur prices not out much this winter to see the raptors.
There was 120 eagles migrate @ one spot in Manitoba yesterday, so the spring move is on.

Had one of these try to dive bomb my duck decoys this past duck season.

Nate, that's very cool !!

For rat_pack

She's two years old, she dives then flips and hit them from the bottom.

That's awesome!! First pic..was that her as an immature?

Saw a merlin kill a tree swallow like your peregrine kills the grouse...came from behind, did a barrel roll, snatched it from below, flipped back-side up, and kept flying...never slowed down or missed a beat

It was acouple weeks ago. She's just under two.