Red Tail Hawk

I think it's a Merlin.

RVW

I come in to work this morning and open up PP only to see the infamaous blinking envelope. Here is the PM that tunaklr sent me, as he lives a few houses down from "my" house that I had to move out of.

"So I get a call last night form my wife. Seems your wife comes by so the girls can play.The dam bird flys from you wife up into a cedar tree. This cedar tree is across the road from me. The bird is up about 20 feet.

At this point I am in Silverdale buying a new cell phone. My spouse broke mine in half about 3 weeks ago so I had been using hers.

Anyway I drive home and there is the white suburban parked in the weeds across the road. With a fricken step stool on top. Seems that someone had been standing on top of the step stool with a long handled net thingie trying to catch the bird.

Anyway we ended up getting the bird out of tree one, it flew over to tree two. Still about 20 feet up in the air. We tossed a basketball up at it. Now the bird flies down the road and straight into the window glass on the front of the house. Fell to the ground as if it was dead. But allas its still alive.

Now the whole ordeal kind of stressed me out. 4 little kids 2 moms one dam little bird."


Looks like the bird is your problem, now, bud.

Coopers hawk.
Here's anopther photo of one. http://www.dunbargardens.com/coopers%20hawk%20perched%20on%20barn.JPG
Coopers hawks and Goshawks get my full grown mallard ducks on occasion when the ducks are in the woods roaming outside of their pen. Similar birds are sharp shinned hawks and goshawks.
But i'd bet money you have a hungry Coopers hawk and he knows there food there as he's returning.
Sometimes they are temporary visitors to feeders, sometimes they return, sometimes they are migrtating through. They are everywhere, from cities to parks to dense woods and shorelines.

Check out the Band-tail pigeon in your bird book. We have them in our yard. They're local resident in the summer before heading south. We used to hunt them but it's hard find a place to do that now days.

It's a Chubacabra.

You better wear safety glasses, a hard hat and carry a big stick when you go outside. You may even want to wear your biggest fishing net over your head. They'll gang up on you the first chance they get. They're partial to getting a big meal all at once. Global warming has made them predators.

It's Friday afternoon, I'm a bit hung over

Tunaklr,

Straying back on topic, it sure looks like a Cooper's hawk. Maybe a sharp shinned, but we'd need better photos of the tail feathers to know. Both species are pretty cool hunters.

Sg