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In Reply to: Wildlife continued posted by G Squared on March 29, 2007 at 06:14:08:
The Circle of Life plays out quite a bit in our backyard :-) One of the most interesting visitors is the Northern Goshawk. They are apparently not too common, but we have had a breeding pair in the conservation land behind our house for as long as we've lived here -- they guard their territory ferociously when they're on the nest, BTW.The goshawk likes to snack on mourning doves at/near our feeders. The dove population ebbs and flows here regularly!
Sorry I cannot find a better goshawk photo at the moment -- I think the old 'puter has better ones but this'll do for now.
Now... we don't actually get these guys in the yard all that often... but one day last week Mrs. H noticed a Red-Tailed Hawk out in the oak tree by some of the tube feeders. S/he was just sittin' there, so I snapped a bunch of photos. True to my skill as a photographer, they're mediocre at best :-) Still, a big, beautiful hawk.
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- coupla more backyard predators - mhardy6647 15:48:14 03/29/07 (1)
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