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old_prof said:
I mentioned a few days ago that we had a barred owl hanging out in a tree about ten feet from the house. Here's the best of the pictures I gotView attachment 2593379
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We have one in the woods behind our house. 2 yrs ago she had babies, spent an entire spring watching them, pretty cool. We've also had an Eastern(?) Flicker around the last few weeks, that's a first. We have hawks, red tailed, but last week saw a rough legged hawk get a squirrel; felt bad for the squirrel but that was pretty cool.
 
old_prof said:
I mentioned a few days ago that we had a barred owl hanging out in a tree about ten feet from the house.
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He's back again. Not as good pictures today because he's a tree further back. It's interesting because he's still close enough that he could obviously hear us inside, through the closed windows. He was trying to sleep, but would open his eyes and look if any of us made a loud noise, including the cat who likes to announce her presence loudly and often.
 
old_prof said:
He's back again. Not as good pictures today because he's a tree further back. It's interesting because he's still close enough that he could obviously hear us inside, through the closed windows. He was trying to sleep, but would open his eyes and look if any of us made a loud noise, including the cat who likes to announce her presence loudly and often.
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I used to work nights. I totally know how he was feeling...
 
Some grim birdwatching this morning. I was standing in my backyard when I noticed little bits of something floating to the ground under a tree. I went closer, and discovered they were feathers. So I looked up, from under the tree, and about 20 feet or so up I saw a Cooper's Hawk, obviously munching on a small bird it had caught.
 
SimonDoom said:
Some grim birdwatching this morning. I was standing in my backyard when I noticed little bits of something floating to the ground under a tree. I went closer, and discovered they were feathers. So I looked up, from under the tree, and about 20 feet or so up I saw a Cooper's Hawk, obviously munching on a small bird it had caught.
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Like the rough legged one my wife and I saw get a squirrel last weekend. It is gruesome to see.
 
That raises a question I asked many times in many ways.

Does the family of mate of prey know or in any way understand that their partner is gone for good?

Larger mammals do, but smaller animals like birds? Cardinals mate for life for example. If the partner is gone, do they go on alone or find another?
 
Five_Inch_Heels said:
That raises a question I asked many times in many ways.

Does the family of mate of prey know or in any way understand that their partner is gone for good?

Larger mammals do, but smaller animals like birds? Cardinals mate for life for example. If the partner is gone, do they go on alone or find another?
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It's been said that Canada geese mate for life and won't mate again. I haven't researched whether this is myth or not. It doesn't make much evolutionary sense, if you think about it.
 
Five_Inch_Heels said:
That raises a question I asked many times in many ways.

Does the family of mate of prey know or in any way understand that their partner is gone for good?

Larger mammals do, but smaller animals like birds? Cardinals mate for life for example. If the partner is gone, do they go on alone or find another?
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It depends on the species.

There are monogamous species who will mate again if a partner is lost. There are some who won't. There are some who aren't monogamous from one season to the next. There are some which aren't monogamous ever.

And even within a species which is thought to have one of those patterns, there will be individuals who don't adhere to the pattern.

A good resource to easily look up stuff like this for North American birds is the Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior.

And cardinals? Even while mated, they aren't always monogamous. And they do get new mates if theirs dies.
 
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Jackie.Hikaru said:
sigh, as a jaded millennial, I fantasize about a house at the edge of a woods where owls are perched lol
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Someone I knew in Maine had a house built into a hill, so that their main floor in the front was the second floor in the back. They built a large ten foot high platform outside a big bay window overlooking the woods behind the house.

As they drove around in their pickup, they would stop and pick any roadkill they saw, squirrels, raccoons, porcupines, even an occasional deer. They threw the roadkill up on the platform.

That was their bird feeder, but instead of chickadees and cardinals they fed a steady stream of eagles, hawks, owls, crows and ravens.
 
MelissaBaby said:
He gets vultures as well, but since he's in a heavily wooded area, they are not as common there as in many other places where the ground is more open.
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Just a few hanging out in a dead tree behind me.





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And that wasn't all of them. Quite a few were still circling above.
 
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