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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: Nerka on January 22, 2015, 11:45:07 PM

Title: first Raptor, Red Shoulder Hawk
Post by: Nerka on January 22, 2015, 11:45:07 PM: finally found one in the wild, our local park in the hills and there he was sitting on a breed box, then chase was on :chuckle:

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8600/16160220687_1e4ca607fb_c.jpg)

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Title: Re: first Raptor, Red Shoulder Hawk
Post by: runamuk on January 22, 2015, 11:48:09 PM: Beautiful bird nice shooting
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Post by: boneaddict on January 23, 2015, 10:35:38 AM: I wonder if that's a new species for my brain. Wonderful photos. Thank you!
Title: Re: first Raptor, Red Shoulder Hawk
Post by: Nerka on January 23, 2015, 10:49:46 AM: Thanks guys, new to my brain too :chuckle:
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Post by: Becky on January 23, 2015, 01:58:11 PM: Gorgeous!
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Post by: lamrith on January 23, 2015, 02:04:59 PM: Great shots man.. Raptor lover myself, handled Redshoulder and Redtails before with a family friend that was a falconer in CA.

Really pretty ones (though I am not sure they are in WA) are the Kestrels or sparrowhawks. They are like a small Peregrine falcon in appearance.

Keep the raptor shots coming!
Title: Re: first Raptor, Red Shoulder Hawk
Post by: Yelper Guy on January 23, 2015, 02:20:55 PM: Good shots indeed!
Lamrinth - we do have kestrels here, pretty much all over the western states.
In my younger days I had a WA. State Falconers Permit. I started out with a Kestrel, and a couple years later got a Red- Tail. They were both females, which in birds of prey are about 1/3 larger than the males.
I never got them to hunt wild birds, but they were killer mousers in the back yard during training sessions.
Title: Re: first Raptor, Red Shoulder Hawk
Post by: lamrith on January 23, 2015, 02:55:11 PM: Yeah they sure are. If I recall there is still a license program here in WA, but that is a full time commitment for sure and one I just could not give proper dedication to right now, even though I would love to.

College I went to had a injured redtail they were rehabing, for 6mos I spent time every day with it, feeding, cleaning, etc. Was an incredible experience being so close for extended time.

I recall this year when the Seahawks mascot went Awol. Would have loved to be the guy it tried to land on, kept yelling at tv, PUT YOUR ARM UP PUT YOUR ARM UP! :bash:
Bird was just looking for a stable spot to sit on!
Title: Re: first Raptor, Red Shoulder Hawk
Post by: Yelper Guy on January 23, 2015, 03:14:47 PM: It was very time consuming going to school and taking care of a bird.
My mentor that got me, actually us (3 teenage guys) started was caring for the raptors at the old Walk-in-the Wild Zoo in the Spokane Valley years ago. They had an injured Golden Eagle they were rehabbing and when he was handling it (perching on his arm) it was eye-to-eye with him - pretty impressive considering the talons are about the size of a mans hand!
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on January 23, 2015, 03:43:43 PM: Nicely done .. :tup: :tup:
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Post by: Brute on January 23, 2015, 09:50:37 PM: Nice Shot Darrell. :tup:
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Post by: Nerka on January 25, 2015, 09:19:29 AM: thanks for the Kudos guys, nice hearing bird stories.