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Thanks for sharing, Denny. I rarely see any hawks in the woods behind my house. I don't get any doves at my feeder and I think they prefer doves to the songbirds I do attract.
Wow, this hawk would actually eat a dove? Actually the tree that this hawk was on is where I have a feeder hanging. I get a lot of Doves along with the usual assortment of songbirds, and way too many squirrels.
We get them around occasionally, surprised we don't see more of them. A few years back there were three watching my feeder, seemed two were in training. Here's my best photo of one from a few years ago.
Doves have more meat on them than songbirds and they are slow (easier to catch).
We do find the scene of a crime once in a while, lots of doves in the area. My wife walks a local trail and said there was a hawk hanging out in one area, lots of feathers on the trail. A nearby neighbor has about 20 feeders, the hawk knows his trade.
A few years ago heading out for a run,I saw the recently deceased deer in the stream along my driveway. Thinking it might be a good opportunity to see what would feed on it I set up my trail cam, only expecting 4 legged varmints. Much to my surprise 2 different eagles paid a visit.
The top two are the trail cam, the bottom is my Canon EOS Rebel. It has a leg silver band and a blue leg band, so I was told one is NYS the other is Federal.
^^^ Very neat to capture those shots, FWC. Wife and i took a ride today looking for Eagles the Winter in the area around Kanab, UT. Today turned out pretty good, saw one Golden Eagle which is pretty rare, didn't wait for me to take a picture. Then we saw a total of seven Bald Eagles, some I was able to photograph but no epic closeups.
They are in and around a lot of Juniper trees:
Gives you an idea of the terrain:
This is a very young Bald Eagle, flew off immediately, the talons were a clue to what he is:
My wife shot these out the car window with her iPhone, so not the greatest quality, but we didn't have time to stop and get another camera ready.
We were traveling through eastern Colorado when we were joined by this bull running parallel with the road. He was running probably 40 mph and clearing fences with ease. When he stopped, turned toward us and jumped the fence was when we decided to move on.
