HELP !! I have an emergency here....

windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
edited January 2, 2006 in Wildlife
i was just about ready to go outside and check my feeder to see if any "friends" stopped by. I checked the window to see if any birds were around, I didnt see any..... BUT... then all of a sudden a huge "WOODPECKER" flew into the bushes.....

THIS IS ONE VERY STRANGE WOODPECKER!!!

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troy

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  • John MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2006
    Oh yeah,I love when those woodpeckers like that stop by the feedermwink.gif
    Nice Troy.
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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited January 2, 2006
    ahhhh, Harry, Jeff and Ben will be very jealous of your pecker
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,952 moderator
    edited January 2, 2006
    with any luck, that guy will eat your woodpecker (and you'll capture it)!

    what kind of raptor is that?
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2006
    DoctorIt wrote:
    with any luck, that guy will eat your woodpecker (and you'll capture it)!

    what kind of raptor is that?

    i dont know, i was hoping somebody on here could identify it for me...


    troy
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,952 moderator
    edited January 2, 2006
    Beyond red-tails or sharp skinned, I don't know what other kind of hawks we have in the northeast. It looks darker than the red-tails I have around here.
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2006
    windoze wrote:
    i dont know, i was hoping somebody on here could identify it for me...


    troy
    Troy size is everthing 80% coopers then smaller sharp-shinned
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2006
    jwear wrote:
    Troy size is everthing 80% coopers then smaller sharp-shinned

    i just added this image from outside my window.. does this help
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,952 moderator
    edited January 2, 2006
    pretty sure thats a sharp shinned (sorry, called it sharp skinned earlier)
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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2006
    Very nice and unexpected, wish one would land near me.

    Found this:
    Cooper's Hawk Distinguishing characters: 14-20" Medium sized, long
    tailed, short winged hawk, brown on top with streaked breast and belly,
    barred wings and tail, and a rounded end to tail (Sharp-shinned Hawk
    has a square tail    ). Yellow eyes turn red in adult.

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  • ThusieThusie Registered Users Posts: 1,818 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2006
    I'm with Jeff, a sharpie stopping by to see what is on the lunch menue.
  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2006
    Thusie wrote:
    I'm with Jeff, a sharpie stopping by to see what is on the lunch menue.


    A Sharpie???
    I just decided it was a coopers hawk, .......... oh well, back to my bird book i guess......


    thanx for stopping bye!

    troy
  • 3rdPlanetPhotography3rdPlanetPhotography Banned Posts: 920 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2006
    That's not a Parakeet? ne_nau.gif
  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2006
    Glad you have a new subject. Hopefully, he'll hang around long enough to get more shots.

    I am certainly no expert on hawk ID but I would go for Sharp-Shinned because of the shape of the tail.


    As Jeff said Size is a big feature in determining species, so it may be tough to definitivley ID, unless there is an expert out there.
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2006
    Rohirrim wrote:
    Glad you have a new subject. Hopefully, he'll hang around long enough to get more shots.

    I am certainly no expert on hawk ID but I would go for Sharp-Shinned because of the shape of the tail.


    As Jeff said Size is a big feature in determining species, so it may be tough to definitivley ID, unless there is an expert out there.

    The Cooper’s hawk is intermediate in size between the large goshawk and the small sharp-shinned hawk. The sharp-shinned and the Cooper’s hawk resemble each other so closely that making a distinction between the two species can be very difficult. The Cooper’s hawk is generally the larger, but size is not always easy to judge accurately in the field. Moreover a male Cooper’s hawk and a female sharp-shinned hawk may be very close in size (In most raptor species, females are larger than males.). The tail helps to identify the species. The Cooper’s hawk’s tail is very rounded, and it ends in a white tip; that of the sharp-shinned hawk is square, or even somewhat forked, and it lacks the white tip. Some authorities feel that the Cooper’s hawk is occasionally seen soaring, whereas the other two accipiters are not.

    from the internet



    so im thinking because of the tail ending in white and being rounded, it must be a cooper's hawk....


    troy
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