Robin
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| Quote (dhogaza @ Dec. 27 2010,18:02) | | The cardinal's very nice ... if you'd taken a half-step to the right, that little branch might've been out of the way, but it can be really difficult to see such obstructions in the viewfinder ... |
The branch up the cardinal's butt? No...that's actually holding the bird in place!
I kid...and you're right. Of course, the cardinal wasn't cooperative much longer.
| Quote | | Were both cooper's hawks shot with in-camera generation of JPEGs, or post-processed from raw? In-camera shot-to-shot JPEG conversions of roughly the same scene ought to be of similar color saturation ... strange. |
They were both shot JPEG. Slightly different angles though. The first shot - the Cooper's looking down - was about 4 feet closer (she let me get really close) and about 5 feet to the right of the second shot. Interestingly, there was a second Cooper's up in a tree about 70 feet away or so and they kept calling to one another the whole time I was out.
| Quote | | You're lucky to have raptors coming to your back yard like this. I live in a fairly sterile neighborhood, though last year I did see a young peregrine falcon chasing a city pigeon in circles over a local light-industrial building a few blocks from home! 'Round and 'round and round they went, for probably five minutes, the pigeon able to turn more tightly than the peregrine, but not able to escape. Finally the pigeon - probably tiring - broke off in a straight line with the peregrine on its heels. Unfortunately buildings were in the way and they were low, didn't get to see the grand finale, but I'd bet on the peregrine. |
Yeah, our neighborhood is near two parks and has a fair bit of cover. A lot of folks (like me) have feeders out so we get a lot of Cooper's coming in to pick off song bird meals. I put out seed specifically for mourning doves and Rock Doves and call them "Hawk Bait". We don't get many Rock Doves, but plenty of Mourning. Lots of Goldfinches and Cardinals too.
The day I took the photos above, we not only got that Cooper's and his friend, but a third Cooper's - an adult female - flew near our house from a neighbor's. There was also a Red-tail who came by our house - once within about 15 feet - three times that day. Too skittish to shoot though. And lastly, we saw what I think was a juvenile Broad-wing sitting across from our house at a neighbor's in the late morning.
That was a very unusual day though - not sure what all the raptor attention was all about.
The juvenile Coopers show up about four times a week though. We're really lucky with that and I count my birding blessings. 
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