10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

Speaking of hawks, two talented and extremely knowledgeable falconers, Marie Gaspari Crawford and Chloe Bowen, shared with us their birds and their experiences. Also on hand were an Aplomado Falcon and a Red-tailed Hawk who was so mellow that he allowed Bowen to stroke him on the back, a gesture which we were told raptors ordinarily detest.

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 182

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. For example, since eagles and hawks tend to rip their prey apart and have stronger digestive acids, their pellets look like wads of fur.

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Bats Dissection Owls Minnesota 214

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Back then, in 2012, the motivation was to have something nice to blog about and to show Corey how the cow eats the cabbage since he was seeing too many good species too easily. White-tailed Eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla. Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus – Heidelberg/Leimen BW, Germany – 02 Jan.

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2017 Germany 2012 2013 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2020

Continuing along the rail trail I soon add a Wedge-tailed Eagle , Spotted Dove , Striated Thornbills , Varied Sittellas , Eastern Spinebill and Grey Shrike-thrush. Some parts of the trail offer views over much more open country and I am lucky enough to encounter a Peregrine Falcon and a Nankeen Kestrel. Wedge-tailed Eagle.

Buffalo 166

Buffalo Fish Koalas Cattle 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Bald Eagle. A young Bald Eagle , our second of the day, preceded us onto the pond but the first good birds we spotted on the actual pond were a quartet of Northern Pintails that conveniently flew right past us. The Yellow-breasted Chat cooperated enough to let us all see it and we continued along, adding more and more birds.

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Bald Eagle Jamaica Birds New York 100