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Leaping Foxes

10,000 Birds

No “gophers” etc. The Common Buzzards , for example, who usually hunt by circling high above the landscape, will hover in kestrel fashion much more frequently. The kestrels , on the other hand, will more frequently hunt from low perches. You’re not a vole or a gerbil. Gotta be mouse gradation.

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Swainson’s Hawk Splendor

10,000 Birds

I quickly discovered they are vocal creatures, perhaps because it was summer time and the breeding season was just finishing up. She flew overhead glancing down from time to time as Buteos do when hunting. I imagine this is the last thing many gophers in Klamath see. Vocal when perched, and vocal when aloft.

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