Collarspace Discussion Forums


Home  Login  Search 

RE: Birds Of Prey


View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
 
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: Birds Of Prey Page: <<   < prev  3 4 [5] 6 7   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/16/2010 10:07:28 PM   
Sanity


Posts: 22039
Joined: 6/14/2006
From: Nampa, Idaho USA
Status: offline
Sounds like all your chicks survived Ken, which is good news! Great videos too, it surprised me how the video was shot by hand up fairly close. We can't get near our birds here except when Fish & Game comes by to band them, or if one glides down to the street level while trying to learn how to fly and has to be taken back up to the nest.

Or when they're screaming and diving at us, for being in their general vicinity.


quote:

ORIGINAL: DomKen

The local chicks are flying now. 2 moved to a different site while learning to fly and there are some great videos of them posted here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/falconcam


_____________________________

Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out

(in reply to DomKen)
Profile   Post #: 81
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/17/2010 9:15:11 AM   
cpK69


Posts: 1593
Joined: 5/9/2008
Status: offline 		Sweet... $100 and temorary ownership of a T-shirt. lol

Good for you, both. ;)

I bet it was entertaining to watch. I miss living in the woods.

Kim

_____________________________

Humility is where weakness and strength meet and humanity begins.

one voice

(in reply to Sanity)
Profile   Post #: 82
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/17/2010 1:23:56 PM   
DomKen


Posts: 19457
Joined: 7/4/2004
From: Chicago, IL
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Sanity


Sounds like all your chicks survived Ken, which is good news! Great videos too, it surprised me how the video was shot by hand up fairly close. We can't get near our birds here except when Fish & Game comes by to band them, or if one glides down to the street level while trying to learn how to fly and has to be taken back up to the nest.

Or when they're screaming and diving at us, for being in their general vicinity.


quote:

ORIGINAL: DomKen

The local chicks are flying now. 2 moved to a different site while learning to fly and there are some great videos of them posted here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/falconcam


They're filming through the library windows. The chicks are pretty used to people being on the other side of the glass.

This year only 3 of the 4 eggs hatched but all three chicks have fledged.

Here's video of the chicks being banded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS3vBHIW1DE

< Message edited by DomKen -- 6/17/2010 1:29:52 PM >

(in reply to Sanity)
Profile   Post #: 83
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/17/2010 3:23:50 PM   
Sanity


Posts: 22039
Joined: 6/14/2006
From: Nampa, Idaho USA
Status: offline
I loved the video Ken, thank you for posting the link.


_____________________________

Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out

(in reply to DomKen)
Profile   Post #: 84
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/21/2010 8:29:34 PM   
Sanity


Posts: 22039
Joined: 6/14/2006
From: Nampa, Idaho USA
Status: offline
I saw him again tonight, some other birds were harassing him while I was doing some work in my back yard which got my attention and here are a few of the photos. Now that I have an image of him to compare he doesn't really match up with file photos of golden eagles that I see on the web, or any hawks of falcons that come up in image searches either. He is very large... can anyone positively ID him?

quote:

ORIGINAL: cpK69

Listening to the wind, when it is blowing constantly, is a bit unnerving, but I enjoy listening to the birds, too.

I’m still amazed at how much bigger they are than what they appear on the camera.

Did you see the new pics of the fish and game person holding one?

You can see their progress from one day to the next; it’s that fast. Amazing!

I wonder if that is general magpie behavior, or if they are protecting something?

I look forward to seeing pictures of the golden eagle.

I should get back over to my parent’s. I wouldn’t mind seeing the bald eagle again, maybe a pair of them, sometime.

Kim






Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out

(in reply to cpK69)
Profile   Post #: 85
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/21/2010 8:30:56 PM   
Sanity


Posts: 22039
Joined: 6/14/2006
From: Nampa, Idaho USA
Status: offline 		Here he is holding relatively still for me




Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out

(in reply to Sanity)
Profile   Post #: 86
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/21/2010 8:48:01 PM   
DomKen


Posts: 19457
Joined: 7/4/2004
From: Chicago, IL
Status: offline 		Red tailed Hawk maybe?

< Message edited by DomKen -- 6/21/2010 8:54:27 PM >

(in reply to Sanity)
Profile   Post #: 87
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/21/2010 8:50:20 PM   
Sanity


Posts: 22039
Joined: 6/14/2006
From: Nampa, Idaho USA
Status: offline
I believe you nailed it Ken!

Thanks once again!


_____________________________

Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out

(in reply to DomKen)
Profile   Post #: 88
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/21/2010 9:23:15 PM   
ThatDamnedPanda


Posts: 6060
Joined: 1/26/2009
Status: offline 		It's a buteo, alright, not an eagle. The head's wrong for an eagle.

But it's not a red-tailed either, unless it's a subspecies with which I'm unfamiliar. The underside of the wings is wrong. Red-tailed hawks have a basically uniform light coloration from front to back on the underside of the wing, and this bird has a white leading edge and dark flight feathers. I think it's a Swainson's hawk.

_____________________________

Panda, panda, burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Made you all black and white and roly-poly like that?


(in reply to Sanity)
Profile   Post #: 89
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/21/2010 9:30:25 PM   
ThatDamnedPanda


Posts: 6060
Joined: 1/26/2009
Status: offline 		Here we go...




Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Panda, panda, burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Made you all black and white and roly-poly like that?


(in reply to ThatDamnedPanda)
Profile   Post #: 90
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/21/2010 9:32:52 PM   
ThatDamnedPanda


Posts: 6060
Joined: 1/26/2009
Status: offline 		Wait a minute. Something about this just isn't right. Sanity's hawk is facing to the left, and mine is facing to the right.

That's just not possible. I need to re-think this whole thing...


_____________________________

Panda, panda, burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Made you all black and white and roly-poly like that?


(in reply to ThatDamnedPanda)
Profile   Post #: 91
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/21/2010 9:52:15 PM   
DomKen


Posts: 19457
Joined: 7/4/2004
From: Chicago, IL
Status: offline 		Never seen a Swainson's in person but I think Panda is right. The pictures look a lot alike.

(in reply to ThatDamnedPanda)
Profile   Post #: 92
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/22/2010 3:50:41 AM   
cpK69


Posts: 1593
Joined: 5/9/2008
Status: offline 		Nice shots, Thomas!

It’s just a guess, but if yours and Pands’s are the same type of bird (they do look very similar), perhaps yours is a female?

I found this image (fifth one down) of a female dark swainson’s hawk. Outside of being different colors, what do you think?

http://redtailboa.net/forums/birds/18616-some-raptor-pictures.html

Kim



_____________________________

Humility is where weakness and strength meet and humanity begins.

one voice

(in reply to Sanity)
Profile   Post #: 93
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/22/2010 6:06:17 AM   
Sanity


Posts: 22039
Joined: 6/14/2006
From: Nampa, Idaho USA
Status: offline
Now I'm confused - I'm not sure if I should be more in agreement with Panda, or with Ken...

The Swainsens is supposed to be a small hawk and this magnificent creature is very large, which is why I assumed it was an eagle at first, before I saw its underbelly. Included is a photo with one of the European starlings that was harassing it, which helps show its size. These photographs are cropped significantly by the way, I can't zoom out quite that far with my little Canon.

I also found this:


quote:


Regional Differences


Red-tailed Hawks have extremely variable plumage, and some of this variation is regional. A Great Plains race called "Krider's" hawk is pale, with a whitish head and washed-out pink in the tail. Light-phase western birds tend to be more streaky on the underparts than eastern Red-tails; south Texas forms are darker above, without the dark belly band most other Red-tails have. Dark-phase birds can occur anywhere but are more common in western North America - particularly in Alaska and northwest Canada, where the all-dark "Harlan's" race is common.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-tailed_Hawk/id

And so while I hate to disagree with Kim, and though I'm not certain about it, this bird may be too large to be a Swainsens.

quote:

ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda

Wait a minute. Something about this just isn't right. Sanity's hawk is facing to the left, and mine is facing to the right.

That's just not possible. I need to re-think this whole thing...









Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out

(in reply to ThatDamnedPanda)
Profile   Post #: 94
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/22/2010 6:10:16 AM   
mistoferin


Posts: 8284
Joined: 10/27/2004
Status: offline 		I believe it is a Swainson's. I did find one site that says they are small hawks but most sites say they are a medium sized hawk. The thing that kind of clinches it for me is the tapering of the wings. We have a lot of red tailed hawks here and I think they have a broader wing with less taper.

_____________________________

Peace and light,
~erin~

There are no victims here...only volunteers.

When you make a habit of playing on the tracks, you thereby forfeit the right to bitch when you get hit by a train.

"I did it! I admit it and I'm gonna do it again!"

(in reply to Sanity)
Profile   Post #: 95
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/22/2010 6:15:30 AM   
mistoferin


Posts: 8284
Joined: 10/27/2004
Status: offline 		The angle of the wings in flight is wrong for a red tail also. Red tails wings are generally flat out.

_____________________________

Peace and light,
~erin~

There are no victims here...only volunteers.

When you make a habit of playing on the tracks, you thereby forfeit the right to bitch when you get hit by a train.

"I did it! I admit it and I'm gonna do it again!"

(in reply to mistoferin)
Profile   Post #: 96
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/22/2010 6:31:06 AM   
Sanity


Posts: 22039
Joined: 6/14/2006
From: Nampa, Idaho USA
Status: offline
Panda may be correct.



_____________________________

Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out

(in reply to mistoferin)
Profile   Post #: 97
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/22/2010 7:11:29 AM   
cpK69


Posts: 1593
Joined: 5/9/2008
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Sanity


Now I'm confused - I'm not sure if I should be more in agreement with Panda, or with Ken...



Well, Ken did say he thinks Panda is right.

Sorta hard to tell them apart, though, in flight seems to be the easiest way to tell the difference.

Kim

_____________________________

Humility is where weakness and strength meet and humanity begins.

one voice

(in reply to Sanity)
Profile   Post #: 98
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/22/2010 7:50:37 AM   
DomKen


Posts: 19457
Joined: 7/4/2004
From: Chicago, IL
Status: offline 		From what I can find Swainson's are a little smaller than red tailed. It is supposed to have a wider wingspan though with slimmer wings. When soaring it is reported to keep its wings at an angle to each other rather than flat like most soaring birds.

There is suppused to be a lot of Swainson's at the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area which isn't too far from Sanity.

I really think it's a Swainson's.

(in reply to cpK69)
Profile   Post #: 99
RE: Birds Of Prey - 6/22/2010 8:20:45 AM   
Sanity


Posts: 22039
Joined: 6/14/2006
From: Nampa, Idaho USA
Status: offline 		Correct, Ken - I can drive there in around half an hour from my place. 

_____________________________

Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out

(in reply to DomKen)
Profile   Post #: 100
Page:   <<   < prev  3 4 [5] 6 7   next >   >>
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: Birds Of Prey Page: <<   < prev  3 4 [5] 6 7   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy

0.078