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Patch: An Urban Red-tailed Hawk (3 of 4)

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(Check out Part 1 here) (Check out Part 2 here) This hawk was a fierce hunter. She ate everything from Rock Pigeons to caterpillars, earthworms to Brewer’s Blackbirds, but her staple diet consisted of plump, toothy, charismatic, and abundant Pocket Gophers. Patch was focused and deliberate, consistent and inventive.

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Duck Migration

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He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. • Explore These Related Posts First Phoebe of 2011 Male Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis in Basic Plumage Pipits and the Sweet Smell of Seaweed Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Stalking a Kiwi Icon.Or

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. A hard-working Chinese Blackbird almost certainly already incubating its second brood is certainly not a target customer for a La-Z-Boy. Accessorizing for birds. These birds have too much taste.

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First Phoebe of 2011

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Sunflower Seed Mafia Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night… About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Or These Blasts From The Past Ode to Birders Beat the Heat!

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s not like I had forgotten lists created with friends of ‘songs with birds in the lyrics’, my personal favorites being Sondheim’s Green Finch and Linnet Bird and the Beatles’ Blackbird. Nor have I overlooked “sightings” of birds in movies mouthing other birds’ calls.

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What is the National Bird of Denmark?

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Red-winged Blackbird in Flight Flight Of The Ancient Mariner About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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A winter miscellany

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So though I visited Lynford, I didn’t see a Hawfinch on this occasion as I wasn’t there at the right time, though I did meet a number of hopeful Hawfinch hunters (HHHs), none of whom reported a sighting. Sadly, many fail, as the finches favour the hornbeams for roosting, so are best seen at dawn or dusk, rarely in the middle of the day.

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