Agreed Mike. Although I see our sharp-shinned on the ground often, usually mantled over a kill. They don't sit for long, usually once they're sure the kill is dead and not a danger to the hawk, it'll fly off to a higher perch to pluck and dismantle it. Note the red eyes too, a dead give away.
I would have preferred some cut-offs from a Frank Lloyd Wright building. A member here has some historical pieces of wood (construction related) from a building FLW designed out west- nope, don’t ask who it is and I won’t give out coordinates……..he knows where I live and can get to me in a jiffy!
A duck, hawk, and dove all in one swoop!
And shortly after a 'swallow' as I worked to get my heart back where it belongs.
Probably didn't hear a peep from you for awhile!
Saw my first on my walks 2 weeks ago, but haven't seen one since. Same day saw the cutest bunch of baby ducks. Must have been 12 or so and newly hatched. They were all bunched tightly around momma and frantaically swimming to go where she was going.
Future gumbo!!
Unless they grow up and fly somewhere else - if you made gumbo of them, you might be eating cook/chill mashed green peas and creamed squash for a couple of years!
Where's the dinner invitation?
Danged, you either got a really long lens and big tripod or some mighty friendly birds. Great bird portraits!!
I typically shoot with a 400mm Canon zoom lens, hand held because I'm too slow messing with a tripod. But those birds are in the backyard and pretty accustomed to seeing me back there. Even the owl will turn and look at me as soon as I open the door or come around the corner of the house. He knows immediately I'm there. But he'll usually just watch me and often, if I'm doing something that he decides doesn't concern him, he'll even go back to doing whatever he was doing before I got there. The quails are probably the most skittish.
