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ChromeDome
Yellow Perch
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
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Location: Crown Point, IN
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 Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:07 pm Post subject: visitor |
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Had a visitor this evening. You can not appriciate their size until you get up close to them. I think this one was eye-ing my neighbor's little dog......
He got spooked by something, probably the glare of the sun reflected off of my bald head, and flew up into a tree next to the house.
Nice talons on this one! |
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wild bill
Tiger Muskellunge
Joined: 19 Oct 2007
Posts: 798
Location: Valparaiso, IN
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| HEY CHROME DOME, IS THAT A SHARP SHINNED HAWK. WILD BILL. |
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ChromeDome
Yellow Perch
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
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Location: Crown Point, IN
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I belive this to be juvenile red-tail hawk. The sharp-shinned hawk is more red than brown on its chest. The juviniles of both are very close. However the differentiation is in the amountof coloration on the chest. The sharp-shinned has more coloration (red checks) on the chest than the red-tail. I could be wrong. It has been some time since my last ornithology lesson. Raptors were never my speciality.
Can't you just here this one calling, "here, kitty, kitty, kitty" |
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