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Favorite Raptors #7880995
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Here's a couple of my favorite-looking raptors. The bald eagle is basically a scavenger, and really doesn't do much killing. The great gray owl, despite it's large size, lives mainly on small mammals (rabbits, voles and gophers).

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I like seeing Kestrels


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Re: Favorite Raptors [Re: Gulo] #7881021
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I agree Danny. What a beautiful plumage on them. Sorry I don't have a better picture. This one was nesting in one of my boreal owl boxes.

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Hawks have always fascinated me. The Alaska red-tailed hawk is the one I see most commonly and is my favorite. A close second is the Northern pygmy owl, but have only seen them a handful of times over the years. Mostly when deer hunting in the dense old growth.

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Nice pictures it’s tough to pick a favorite I like seeing them all really, during the migration periods we are thick with them.

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Love to hear owls. Great Grays are on my list to enjoy hearing some quiet night.

Nice shots, Jack.

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Kansas was loaded with Kestrels. I would see dozens of them on the utility poles and wires as I traveled daily trapline checks. They also had loads of barred and great horned owls. The ranchers didn't like the red tails too much I learned. Barred owls are great hunters. Particularly those I have had the opportunity to observe when I was undetected at dusk each day.

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Sparrow hawk aka kestrel
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Jack I sometimes wish we had camera phones when I was a boy. A momma screech owl raised her litter every yr on grandma and grandpa's small fruit tree orchard. The babies would feather out and begin flying when they were still tiny and hung around until fall.

It took some looking but you could find mom and her hatch all huddled in a line on a pear tree or crab apple tree limb almost any day. It was surprising how their plumage blended in with the bark. You almost had to notice a head turning with you first b4 you'd see anything at all.

The young ones also habituated to us kids fairly easily. At dusk we could mimic their mother and they would gather around us and eat grasshoppers or cut worms we had gathered for the occasion. .


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Re: Favorite Raptors [Re: danny clifton] #7881098
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
I like seeing Kestrels



Yup, my favorite.
Although I still call them sparrow hawks.

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Originally Posted by DaveP
Originally Posted by danny clifton
I like seeing Kestrels



Yup, my favorite.
Although I still call them sparrow hawks.


Ditto. Always had one every summer when I was a kid (early '70's). There was a grove of cottonwood trees below our house where they would always nest and without fail spring storms would blow limbs off and expose a nest or two. I would usually get one of the little guys real young and they were easy to raise. They would spend most of the day in the neighbor's spruce tree hunting/chasing sparrows. When I would step out the back door with some bits of fresh meat, I would whistle and they would fly across our neighbor's property to ours and land on my fist. I must have raised a half dozen of them over that time and every one of them behaved the same way. Very attached to me all summer and then in late fall they would just be gone one day. I had several great horned owls too but found them to never get very tame. Seems like once they could fly real well they would just drift away one day (or night) and would never be seen again. I had several red tails and they are great rodent hunters. They eat like a teenage boy though and it was always a struggle for a kid on a bicycle to scrounge up enough fresh meat for them until they got to where they could hunt on their own.

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One of the coolest things I've seen outdoors was when I was a kid on deer or coyote drive and I was on post in the woods. It had snowed and it was one of those wet heavy snows where there was three inches of snow on the tree branches too. So I was standing still with my back to a tree just standing there waiting on the drivers to come by and this, it must have been a great horned owl, come swooping down out of a nearby tree and got low and swooped up a little and proceeded to fly through that thick woods with a huge wings span and never hit a tiny branch or made a sound other than the swooshing of those great big wings that just seemed to fold in at just the right time to fit through a tight spot... and then here came the pushers.

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Barn owl nest in my deer stand

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Originally Posted by WhiteCliffs
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Barn owl nest in my deer stand


You really can't appreciate a barn owl until you've held one. They are actually very petite framed birds under those feathers and the feathers are the most metallic gold I've ever seen on a bird. The bill looks for all the world like fine ivory.

Stunning is putting it mildly.


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Originally Posted by Lazarus


Ditto. Always had one every summer when I was a kid (early '70's). There was a grove of cottonwood trees below our house where they would always nest and without fail spring storms would blow limbs off and expose a nest or two. I would usually get one of the little guys real young and they were easy to raise. They would spend most of the day in the neighbor's spruce tree hunting/chasing sparrows. When I would step out the back door with some bits of fresh meat, I would whistle and they would fly across our neighbor's property to ours and land on my fist. I must have raised a half dozen of them over that time and every one of them behaved the same way. Very attached to me all summer and then in late fall they would just be gone one day. I had several great horned owls too but found them to never get very tame. Seems like once they could fly real well they would just drift away one day (or night) and would never be seen again. I had several red tails and they are great rodent hunters. They eat like a teenage boy though and it was always a struggle for a kid on a bicycle to scrounge up enough fresh meat for them until they got to where they could hunt on their own.


Great story!
You just made me flashback 50+ years, when I read My Side of the Mountain!

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Ya, I was a Sam Gribley Wanna Be.

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Originally Posted by Lazarus
Ya, I was a Sam Gribley Wanna Be.



Closest I got was a few crows, crazy smart birds

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Dr Chamberlain, UGA turkey expert, related one study they had several hens fitted with telemetry equipment, along with a couple of gray foxes, several coons, and a couple of skunks. He said a pair of nesting great horned owls killed every one of them.

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Great greys are neat but nothing beats a mature goshawk!!!


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Re: Favorite Raptors [Re: WhiteCliffs] #7881151
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Originally Posted by WhiteCliffs
Dr Chamberlain, UGA turkey expert, related one study they had several hens fitted with telemetry equipment, along with a couple of gray foxes, several coons, and a couple of skunks. He said a pair of nesting great horned owls killed every one of them.


I believe it. Had one fly past at close range. Dead silent and I can see them being silent death for anything they set their sights on.

Eerie such a large bird can be so quiet.


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Originally Posted by DaveP
Originally Posted by danny clifton
I like seeing Kestrels



Yup, my favorite.
Although I still call them sparrow hawks.

X2

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I like to watch ospreys fish.
Also saw a golden eagle in Wyoming Wednesday. Big birds


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This little kestrel hit my window trying to catch dinner a couple months ago. It sat there for about 1/2 hour till it regained it's senses and then flew away


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Re: Favorite Raptors [Re: Gulo] #7881233
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I too like watching Ospreys fish, that midair shudder to shake the water off after a catch just amazes me. Aerodynamics and gravity shouldn’t allow that, yet they do it with ease all while carrying their catch.

As far as the rest of the hawks, I have no use for them or the great horned owl, there needs to be a season on them.

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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
I too like watching Ospreys fish, that midair shudder to shake the water off after a catch just amazes me. Aerodynamics and gravity shouldn’t allow that, yet they do it with ease all while carrying their catch.

As far as the rest of the hawks, I have no use for them or the great horned owl, there needs to be a season on them.

There needs to be unlimited season on them - like back n the day when grand dad shot every chicken hawk he saw. The hawks still lived through that ok

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Dead ones.

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We have coopers hawks and red tailed hawks in our woodlot.
I've seen a Coopers Hawk go after a fledgling Piletated Woodpecker.
I pitied the poor Coopers Hawk once the parents came after him.

picture of a Coopers Hawk that would visit our feeder waiting for foolish birds.
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heres the same Coopers Hawk with a foolish Morning Dove.

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I like hearing and seeing all raptors, always have. Some of my favorites include the peregrine falcon, marsh hawks, some of the smaller raptors like sharp-shinned and coopers hawks and of course the kestrel. I love hearing the various owls in the area an identifying by call.


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Owls are my favorite, so many different shapes and sizes. The eyes are always the focal point.

Gulo, your Great Grays are on my bucket list. Such a cool bird.

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Awesome pictures tray, I’m with you owls are my favorite. I love watching the burrowing owls, funny little guys.

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Ospreys are awesome. I also love the bobbing and weaving my barn owls do. not a fan of the baldies though.

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Hawks and eagles are my favorite.

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I have to say Christine and I were impressed by a Bald Eagle standing on a deer carcass in the median of Hwy 8 just outside of Rhinelander, WI. I'll just say HUGE, watch traffic drive by, interrupting it's dinner!

My favorite raptor I saw was probably 20 years ago, came out of the house to find a Snowy Owl perched on the eave of the barn over looking the snow covered pasture on a crisp early morning at sunrise.


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Ospreys are neat. I like watching them fish while I m fishing.

Before I witnessed it, I always figured they would swoop down and gracefully snag a fish in their talons and soar away with a meal.

Maybe it happens that way sometimes but I have not seen it. What I see is anything but graceful. They will hoover briefly then drop down and smack the water with the sound of someone doing a bad belly flop. They will then struggle to take off and get airborne with wet feathers and their meal if they were successful, which they are not more often than they are.

If they were successful they are usually being harassed by other ospreys, gulls or eagles trying to steal their fish as they struggle to gain altitude.

They earn their meals!


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Marsh hawk also a favorite here, named got changed to Notthern Harrier, long time ago.
But like the sparrow hawk, I refuse to change!

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Barred owls one of my favorites here. When they get to chattering in wee hours of the morning it sounds like a couple howler monkeys opening up. They can make some weird eery sounds.
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Wonderful shots, Tatiana, and Tray. I have Goshawks here. They swoop low , only a few feet off the ground through the conifers , those long tails and gray colours always get my attention. I always think of the Harrier jets , named after those hawks.

Tray, your Burrowing owls reminded me of fun times in Ocala , FLA, when I rode imported show horses and Appaloosas there. I would enjoy taking them outside the arenas , and all over the neighborhood, riding fence along roads, waving at folks on their ranches , passing by. The wee Burrowing owls were all over . They thrived in that white sandy ground . They would sit on top of fence posts and watch me pass by. I liked when they would do what I call the "stoop curtsey " as I got closer. I haven't seen so many in one area since.

Wonderful shots, everyone.

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danny clifton Offline
"Grumpy Old Man"
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Burrowing owls will sure make you jump setting traps around praire dog towns or catching rattlers in the spring.


Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Re: Favorite Raptors [Re: Gulo] #7881687
06/10/23 01:16 PM
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Montana ,Rocky Mtns.
Sharon Offline
"American Honey"
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grin Didn't think about that scenario, Danny !

Re: Favorite Raptors [Re: Gulo] #7881723
06/10/23 02:08 PM
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adam m Offline
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Surprised no one has said Ford Raptor laugh

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