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Beautiful bird! What a bad ass.
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Bad ass looking bird.
Cool stuff.
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While shooting SD Pdog towns I have them land on dead ones. I've had them do this numerous times and have once had a golden eagle land in close. I feel obligated to move for fear some LEO is going to accuse me of harassing raptors and give me a ticket. I like seeing them and don't have a problem with relinquishing the killing field to them. Of course I just move and start over. They don't follow me and seem happy staying on a kill. Never have seen one swallow a whole dog, they tear into them. But of course I may be wrong with my bird identification. There are lots of large raptors around the prairie dog towns. An active eagle nest is at the edge of my favorite town. The ranch has poisoned in previous years but not lately.
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That close call with your eye reminded me of the scene in the movie “The Vikings” with Kirk Douglas and Ernest Borgnine when Kirk D. was attacked and blinded by the hawk or falcon (don’t remember which one it was).
REALLY nice looking bird.
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Saw that just the other day. It was a Goshawk.
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Keep these going Lefty. Absolutely some of the best threads on the fire.
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If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Swallow an entire prairie dog?
Skeptical! Maybe a small one.
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Saw that just the other day. It was a Goshawk.
John I can believe it -- Gos are faster than thought. If you're curious, the other two in the triad that are required to get an eagle endorsement are a Great Horned Owl and a Goshawk
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I've always wanted to get into falconry.
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Thanks for this thread - the photos are excellent and show aspects not easy to see in live settings in the wild. We have observed numerous Ferruginous Hawks from time to time here at our high elevation location in western NM. They are fabulous hunters and very fast compared to the local Red Tailed Hawks. As you mentioned, in some ways they act/fly like Golden Eagles but consistently appear to be smaller than our average Golden here. Are these sometimes also called "Rough Legged Hawks"? Beautiful bird. Thanks again.
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they're about half the size of a golden eagle.
Rough legged hawks are a separate species that aren't really used for falconry. They're a northern migrant to our part of the country and typically don't show up until Nov or later
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Thanks realy like your info on the Hawks! Please keep them coming!
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