Quite a weekend for me in the bird dept. (and a few schoolies to boot). Catbirds were right on schedule and tore through every orange I put out on my seed board, but as a bonus I had a pair of flycatchers checking out the birdhouse outside my window. The female was checking the house out while the male was a few feet away. He then flew over to another house, but I think that the hole was too small - bummer.
Got some pics of an unidentified hawk that came down and took a birdbath in a puddle in my driveway, he was about the same size as a crow and he had a prominent black cap. I forgot to drag the pics home with me, I'll get them up next weekend
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Red Shouldered Hawk, (male) April 2012
I used a Nikon D-70 w/80-400mm telephoto at maximum focal length. He was perched on a snapped off tree-trunk about 30 feet up and 50 feet behind my back fence. It looks smallish, but it had a wing span about the same as a Red Tailed Hawk.
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