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One of the whippets got up from his spot where he watches out the window and busted out the dog door a couple hours ago. We got up from what we were doing to see what was up. I went out the front door and an explosion of quail happened, followed by me seeing a raptor flying after some. Didn't see a catch, and the quail of course went and hid in the sagebrush and such. Back inside I go, tell the wife I think a sharp shinned or Cooper's was after my quail. Got back to what I was doing and wife says, it's on your truck. Dog had been laying in the living room and noticed it land on the lumber rack. I was near it, so I grabbed the good camera and went out to see. I had to shoot through the dining room window for the shots on the rack, but was able to move to another window with less glare when it flew from the truck to my rail fence. Too big for a sharp shinned, so I'm calling it a Cooper's. (Birdy, correct me if I'm wrong ) Stayed there long enough for me to get a good zoom shot. If only the glare wasn't there, sunset coming in from the picture window in the living room. But, the fence pic through the other window is better. I'd have tried to get out to get an unobstructed shot, but he was looking right at the front door.
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Break barrel pellet gun will take care of that if in private. Great pics.
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Juvenile Cooper’s, I’m gonna WAG female.
Just now independent, learning the ropes, about 1 in 3 make it through the first year.
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Break barrel pellet gun will take care of that if in private. Great pics. Bale decease (big round hay bales) as it’s called up north.
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They make a lot of strange vocalizations. Last couple years ive had a pair on my property that decided they were going to mate, very frequently, on a log overhanging one of my trails where i have a trail cam set up in video mode. The noises they make while mating are ridiculous, and after, the female often laughs at the male. Serious.
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Juvenile Cooper’s, I’m gonna WAG female.
Just now independent, learning the ropes, about 1 in 3 make it through the first year. Not a sharp-shinned?
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Gots a coupla shots of hawks too, Geno ! We got big, robust, Jim Conrad style hawks up here !!
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Looks a little like a Swainson's hawk.
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Juvenile Cooper’s, I’m gonna WAG female.
Just now independent, learning the ropes, about 1 in 3 make it through the first year. Not a sharp-shinned? When I first walked outside to see what was going on and something flew by after the quail, that was my first thought. But, seeing it on the truck 10-12 feet away I could tell it was too large for a sharp shinned. Seems the barring pattern on the chest is different in the two species' juveniles, and this one more closely fit the Cooper's version Mike, when we looked in Sibley's I figured it was a youngster. I wasn't guessing its gender or pronouns in today's world. And yeah, with all them quail in the yard and no success, it better get to learning how to hunt soon, or it's going to be one of your "1 in 3 " statistical losers.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Gots a coupla shots of hawks too, Geno ! We got big, robust, Jim Conrad style hawks up here !! Paul, I think them are ducks.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Whoa, Conrad sized ducks !
Are they good eatin ?
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Whoa, Conrad sized ducks !
Are they good eatin ? I'm not sure, but they prolly taste like rattlesnake, 'cause even chickens taste like that.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Break barrel pellet gun will take care of that if in private. Great pics. Geno, that sucker is focused on quail.
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Whoa, Conrad sized ducks !
Are they good eatin ? Ain't worth a schitt once a 50 grain bullet turns em into a feather cloud.
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Break barrel pellet gun will take care of that if in private. Great pics. Bale decease (big round hay bales) as it’s called up north. Poisonous to a lot of raptors.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Gots a coupla shots of hawks too, Geno ! We got big, robust, Jim Conrad style hawks up here !! Paul, I think them are ducks. I was thinkin loons.
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Damned right. Nothing like duck gumbo.
Except maybe duck and dressing.
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