COMMENT 326927
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2012-10-02 12:10 PM |
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FANTASTIC!!!!!
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COMMENT 326935
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2012-10-02 12:21 PM |
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cool!
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COMMENT 326942
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2012-10-02 12:32 PM |
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Regulator for sure. The only thing brave enough to get within fifty feet of him is a seagull. The pigeons are certainly keeping their distance.
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THE BARRON
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2012-10-02 01:10 PM |
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Nice shots
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COMMENT 326965
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2012-10-02 01:31 PM |
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LOL The Great White for Pigeons
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COMMENT 326971P
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2012-10-02 01:42 PM |
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Love the shots. Thanks for posting.
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MTNDRIVER
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2012-10-02 01:50 PM |
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Great close-ups. Is it a juvenile Cooper's, or Sharp-shinned? Anyone?
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COMMENT 326976
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2012-10-02 01:56 PM |
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One just killed a pigeon in my back yard last night - I like the population controll, but seriously detest the mess.
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PAMSB
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2012-10-02 01:59 PM |
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Here is a great primer on comparing Cooper's and Sharp-Shinned Hawks: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/AboutBirdsandFeeding/accipiterIDtable.htm
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COMMENT 327001
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2012-10-02 02:41 PM |
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Hello? Does anybody notice his hurt foot? Poor guy!!!
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COMMENT 327007
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2012-10-02 03:04 PM |
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O/P here...the hawk was just in a relaxed/resting position with the left talon. When it prepared to take-off, it flattened the talon like the right and showed no deformity or discomfort.
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COMMENT 327011
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2012-10-02 03:09 PM |
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So thats what is was!! I literally went outside and this thing had been sitting in my tree killer mice all night and when I woke up in morning, it was chilling on the telephone poll! Could be the same guy, thanks for the pics!
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COMMENT 327038
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2012-10-02 04:02 PM |
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Beautiful---love them raptors!
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COMMENT 327043
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2012-10-02 04:15 PM |
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On a foggy day, I heard a noise in the air above me and then pigeon feathers falling from the sky Score one for the hawks
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COMMENT 327068P
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2012-10-02 04:58 PM |
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I feel very confident in stating that this is a Cooper's hawk. Next time (right!) show us the end of the tail, as that can be one of the best ways to tell Cooper's from Sharp-shinned. Cooper's tail end is rounded, with not much white. Sharp-shinned is squared-off (think "sharp") and has a tiny bit more of a white band.
The i.d. of Cooper's vs Sharp-shinned is one of the trickier i.d.s to make. But from this photo, it looks to me that the tail is rounded, and the eyes are further back a bit. With Sharp-shinned the eyes are more up front. (Hope all this info isn't making your eyes roll back into your head!)
Those of you who say you have mice and pigeons being killed at night, if you are writing about the dark of night, you are more than likely the lucky neighbors of a Barn owl or Great horned owl. Hawks are diurnal----active in daytime.
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COMMENT 327043
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2012-10-02 07:29 PM |
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043 Here, the pigeon in the fog was during the day. Never saw the hawk that caught it, but we have a variety of hawks living in the area. I did have a nice pile of feathers in the yard.
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EMUWREN1
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2012-10-02 09:05 PM |
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Don't rule out Peregrine falcons. They are masters at catching larger birds on the wing. I watched a Peregrine take down an American coot (some people call them "mud hens"), right at the Laguna outlet, next to Stern's wharf. A coot weighs nearly two pounds. (For comparison, a city pigeon --true name is "Rock dove," weighs about 1/2 that.) There used to be a Peregrine that sat in a tall tree near Motor, Brake & Wheel (De la Guerra & De la Vina) and shredded ducks, pigeons, etc. That falcon was last spotted in that location about four years ago.
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COMMENT 327178P
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2012-10-02 10:34 PM |
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There is a Peregrine Falcon at Goleta Slough.
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MTNDRIVER
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2012-10-03 08:49 AM |
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Thanks for the Cooper's vs. Sharp-shinned ID info. I have never been really sure when I see one of these, but the tail differences may help in future. I don't think these two hawks are into mice. Birds are their prey of choice. If you have a bird feeder and see a hawk blast through your yard and the little guys scatter, it's probably one of these. Red-tails and red-shouldered are more for the ground dwellers.
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