There are lots of Rough-legged halk moving south now around here with little snow cover. One of the few halks that can hover over their prey for minutes at a time.

My Finnish X Siberian female Goshawk. Not sure why it’s sideways, but oh well.

Love the color of your Goshawk. Cool bird

The migration patterns on those Rough-leggeds is crazy, they can really cover a lot of country. We have a lot of voles this year so they are really stacked up around here.

I wish we had trees I haven’t seen 90% of those birds and I’ve been in the outdoors since I could walk. The big red headed looking woodpeckers are amazing. Thanks for everyone that posted

This thread has me thinking of Jonathan. Miss his post, still.

That's COOL! Looked into falconry at one time and considered it but I realized I did not have the time to commit to doing it.

I few bands, last pic all 6 are banded. Must be a family group that was banded in summer and is still together.

Good picture there Tray. They are placing more tracking bands on the birds now so they can alter the spring seasons on the resident geese vs the high artic birds with the recoveries.
Those bands record the day light in intervals so they can figure the degrees latt. the birds fly to. Some are still recording 5 years into their use

From previous band recoveries it’s most likely these geese are from the Calgary area. But anything is possible.

our Winnipeg giant Canada geese go to two locations Swan Lake Minn or Rochester Minn. Seems that up to 50% of the Calgary geese do not migrate but feed on dried grass

Gulo, great pic. Not often you find a snipe out in the open, but if you do it’s sitting on a fence post calling. Love the sound of their display flight.

I wholeheartedly agree, Tray. Back when I could hear, the winnowing was one of my favorites. My wife, who can still hear (doesn't have 7 thousand SuperCub hours) tells me pretty much every evening when we're enjoying our toddies, that the snipe at our house are winnowing.

Jack

Love hearing snipe too, Jack. There’s no other sound like them. It adds to the quiet peacefulness of a creek or river.

It’s a good vole year, and with that comes the predators. These Short-eared Owls are fairly active at dawn and dusk and are easily recognizable at a distance from the erratic flight pattern.

In between hunting, fishing, and bronzing the wife and I checked out Volcano National park. This bird is called “Nene”. A native Hawaiian goose

I love owls just such a interesting bird.

Not a bird but I figure no one will mind..

Just returned from a trip to the jungles of Belize, so many awesome and colorful birds. Got to experience an army ant swarm moving thru the jungle floor, there is a number of birds that specialize in following these swarms catching bugs that the ants flush out. It’s kinda chaos with all the activity and trying to find and ID all the different birds. One thing I’ve learned about birding in the jungle is it really helps to have a local, guys that bird all the time and know the different calls will help locate and find the birds much faster then I can.
Also found a fresh set of Jaguar tracks in the same location I did a couple years ago when I was there. Really wish I had the time to run a few trail cameras when I’m there.

Tray,Im curious, Does Merlin work there?
That Tucan is crazy!