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On 2026-07-05 10:42 a.m., jmquown wrote:
On 7/5/2026 10:38 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
On 2026-07-05 10:10 a.m., jmquown wrote:
Just spotted a hawk on the roof next door. Grabbed my camera and
snapped some pics. I think it's a young Coopers Hawk. Sunning
itself and waiting to hunt for prey.
https://i.postimg.cc/m25jqKML/hawk.jpg
Nice of that hawk to pose for you like that.
It was amazing to be able able to capture that photo. Beautiful young hawk. I saw it later on the ground behind the house, trying to catch
some squirrels. It has not yet figured out how to hunt.
I have had several incidents where I really regretted not having a
camera handy. One was a number of years ago when I was at a friend's
place and we went out to the garage and there was a humming bird sitting
on an electrical wire. We just stayed there and looked at it for about
10 minutes. A more usual situation is to see them outside when you hear
a loud buzzing and turn to see the hummingbird take off.
The summer I worked in a canoe tripping camp I was taking some young
kids on an overnighter. I had my stuff backed and loaded into a cedar
strip canoe. They decided that I should switch and stern a 6 seater
aluminum canoe, so I just got out and switched. We were just going from
the lake where the camp was located to the next lake over, and they were connected by a river. Half way along the river a Great Blue Heron flew
right over us and landed on a log about 15 feet away. I scrambled for my camera. I had to get over to the other canoe and get someone to get the
camera out and hand it to me. While we were doing that the Heron walked
down to the end of the log, stabbed it's beak into the water and came up
with a fish. It stood there with that fish in its mouth for a couple
minutes and then tossed it up into the air, caught it head first and swallowed. I finally had my camera in hand and caught a photo of it
flying away.
More recently I was kayaking on that same lake and had left my camera
and cell phone in the cabin. I saw something fluffy in the water and
went over to investigate. It was a baby loon. One of the parents popped
up with a minnow in its mouth and fed it to the little one. Then it dove
back down and came back a minute or two later with another one. That
went on for more than 15 minutes... and no damned camera.
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