Jock Elliott
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- Location
- Troy, NY
No brag, just fact: my wife and I are the proud owners of a local hot spot. Yup, our birdfeeder has been declared "The place to be" by a mob of about 50 sparrows.
Here's an example of the activity:
All the activity has attracted some other attention as well; yesterday what we believe is a Cooper's Hawk showed up, landed in tree next to the feeder and then dropped into a small thicket behind the feeder and stalked around on the ground, looking for, well, lunch. I was lucky enough to catch him at 800mm (e) with the FZ200. I was shooting two layers of plastic and two layers of glass, so the photo quality is, as the French say, "merde." Nevertheless, I consider myself lucky to have gotten the shot.
I've never seen this behavior in a hawk before.
Cheers, Jock
Here's an example of the activity:
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All the activity has attracted some other attention as well; yesterday what we believe is a Cooper's Hawk showed up, landed in tree next to the feeder and then dropped into a small thicket behind the feeder and stalked around on the ground, looking for, well, lunch. I was lucky enough to catch him at 800mm (e) with the FZ200. I was shooting two layers of plastic and two layers of glass, so the photo quality is, as the French say, "merde." Nevertheless, I consider myself lucky to have gotten the shot.
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I've never seen this behavior in a hawk before.
Cheers, Jock