Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: Anonymous on April 05, 2008, 04:23:28 PM
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Saw a few of the usual suspects, plus one that I think is a Merlin?
American Kestrel - http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attil ... 21/Kestrel (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attilas-2007-Shots%21/Kestrel)
Juvenile Red Tail Hawk - http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attil ... 1/JuvieRTH (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attilas-2007-Shots%21/JuvieRTH)
Merlin? - http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attil ... %21/Merlin (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attilas-2007-Shots%21/Merlin)
Posted photos as well of a RTH coming down from a hydro pole and re-emerging from a gas station roof with a pigeon in tow. There are feeding pics included, and some contain portions of exposed bone.
Takeoff - http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attil ... 21/Liftoff (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attilas-2007-Shots%21/Liftoff)
Pluck - http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attil ... ots%21/Rip (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attilas-2007-Shots%21/Rip)
Tear - http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attil ... ts%21/Rip2 (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attilas-2007-Shots%21/Rip2)
MM MM Good - http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attil ... s%21/Lunch (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Attilas-2007-Shots%21/Lunch)
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I think your Merlin is most likely a Sharp Shinned hawk or a Coopers hawk. The length of the tail feathers and white undertail coverts say Accipiter it's a sub adult or Juvenile, breast feathers are brownish and white. Adults have Horizontal white and rusty/redish stripes, Coopers tend to have lightly marked breasts and Sharpies heavily barred breast at this stage.
I am leaning towards the fridge, naw , make it a Coopers . anybody? I cannot see the tail clearly enough nor its heads shape.
Napper :D the Bobble head
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Crack me up...
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