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BAD AT STUFF
May 10, 2012

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because fuck you.


Oh hey, cool thread. Any ideas on this bird? Seen in September and October around Cincinnati. I'm thinking maybe a juvenile Cooper's Hawk, but I honestly have no idea. Album:

https://imgur.com/a/7kwFo2A

e: adding a second picture because yikes, those talons:

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BAD AT STUFF
May 10, 2012

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because fuck you.

Captain Hygiene posted:

That's awesome, lots of cool pictures in there. Looks close enough to other Cooper's Hawk photos I looked up that I'd believe it.

Thanks! It was so close for that first picture, just a few yards away from the house. It's perched on the fence that keeps the deer out of the tomatoes (:argh:)


PainterofCrap posted:

Sharp-shinned hawk? Looks like a nice backdrop of marijuana crop (I know it ain't)

Yeah, maybe. A relative who birdwatches thought it was a Merlin, but I think they're pretty rare in the Midwest unless they're migrating. If I had gotten a picture of it flying that might have helped, but I set my phone down for a second right before it took off.

Also, you didn't see nothin.

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