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July 11, 2006December 25, 2020Extralimital, Other Birds

Finland

I’ve just gotten back from ten days in Finland and Estonia. I spent most of my time with family, but couldn’t resist taking a few bird photographs.

ay. Imagine the work required of the parents, considering that a Finish summer day is 21 hours long.

June 18, 2006December 28, 2020Eagles, Falcons, Hawks and Osprey, Other Birds, St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

More from Saturday

After taking a break in the early afternoon, and a detour to Riverside Church, I returned to the Cathedral.

The hawk watchers up at the Cathedral compared their estimates for fledge dates today. The question of the day was, Did we have a precocious fledgling followed by a normal fledgling?, Or a regular fledgling followed by a reluctant one? The general consensus was that we had a precocious, first fledgling.

A photograph I forgot to post from earlier in the day of the adult female being bothered by a Mockingbird.

Three Peregrines come to attack the adult female. They were so fast, I couldn’t get a picture of all of them.

A fledgling on the scaffolding. At this point, I can’t tell them apart for sure.

The fledgling disappears, and after awhile one appears on St. Luke’s. This looks to be the new playground for the young hawks.

The young hawk experiments with the strong breeze.

…picks up some left over prey from earlier in the day…

The young hawk continues to play in the wind.

It soon moves about 15 feet on St. Luke’s after having some troubles finding solid footing.

The mother returns to the Cathedral, near St. Matthew.

June 3, 2006December 28, 2020Other Birds, St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

Mockingbird vs. Red-tailed Hawk, Part II

Last week, I saw a Mockingbird in the garden on the south side of the Cathedral, and knew it was only a matter of time before I’d see a confrontation between this Mockingbird and a Red-tailed Hawk near the nest. (This is a different Mockingbird than the one that harassed the Red-tail on 110th Street.)

This morning the female adult was about twenty feet from the nest when a Mockingbird attacked. After acting like the Mockingbird was nothing more than an annoying insect, the Red-tailed moved north to a St. Luke’s Hospital perch.