Cornell Red Tailed Hawk cam:
 

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This is pretty interesting!

We had a huge hawk in our yard today, trying for the squirrels.
Created much commotion and weird warning cries.

I got a photo too.... I think it might be a juvenile red tailed hawk...because it was so large. But not sure.

Too cute!

Thanks for that. Mum is busy preening her big babies. lol

I just love these webcams.

Just had 4 more flying around here... they didn't stop however and flew up the creek to the golf course area. Huge really huge.
All brown. Not a bird or squirrel in sight or within hearing either!

They were circling the parking lot on the other side of the creek where the Farmer's Market was this morning. Checking for trash/and squirrels, etc.

Not too long ago on the Hawk cam, was a starling on the railing giving the hawk mother grief. The hawk was positioning herself between the starling and her babies and giving the bird the evil eye! ;)

Neat how she's standing up keeping the sun off the babies.

Thanks for the link.

Looks like even hawk moms have a time getting their kids to settle for the night.:)

Since I became disabled, one of the things I really enjoy is watching the birds at my feeding station. Before, I was too busy to pay much attention.

mrsD
 

p.s. I forgot to say that the photos you took in your yard are just incredible.

Thank you, Lara. I had just put my allergy eye drops in (terrible pollen here this spring)...and couldn't see a thing...all blurred up.

Hubby ran in and grabbed me to take the photos. I couldn't even see the screen clearly. I was very surprised to catch that mid-air shot, as I didn't see it. (but then when doing birds I click fast shots and out of many there will usually be one or 2 good enough to keep.)

Today we had a large hawk again, but it was white underneath the wings. Yesterday's was brown under the wings. I think they are migrating thru us to go upNorth.

These hawks are so big they throw a huge shadow across the yard. I can't recall this many in past years. ;)

lol, what a story you tell. You did very well indeed then if you had blurred vision. The birds are very clear. I really wish I had a good camera, I'd use it all the time.

Maybe you're seeing so many because of the climate. It's been so icy cold there and suddenly it sounds as if it's quite hot for this time of the year, so they could be on the move early.

I was looking at the temp. in Ithaca N.Y. before and it was 84F and even in my climate, that's pretty warm. The BR bird was just standing perched on the hot railing in the middle of buildings. Wouldn't be much breeze up there.

Keep the camera ready and take lots of pics!

I use an automatic camera. It has several settings you select from a wheel on top. When I am outside shooting an animal or bird or butterfly, it might focus on a near object and blur the subject. So I set it on Landscape before I went out there. This is rather a fail safe setting and I use it for nature/water shots, sunsets etc. It was sunny out so there was plenty of light. All I had to do was zoom some. It also has some jiggle stabilization, but when I get real excited it is hard to hold still even with it.

This is a Sony 20x zoom, and has really been nice for me.
I was never really into film cameras... too much time between the shooting and developing. But the digitals give instant results and now I love taking photos!

Here is a new one of Mrs. Goldfinch taking some nesting cotton I took yesterday:

And the second one is Mrs. QuackQuack in our yard yesterday, illustrating the distance focus advantage with Landscape tool.

You know we haven't seen Mr. QuackQuack at all since Sunday morning. He likes to sit on the neighbor's mansard roof, and I wonder if a hawk took him? She was here alone today again. sigh. I hope he is just sitting on the eggs for her, so she can visit our feeder. They have been very tame and here alot more this spring than usual.

Stunning photos! Thanks for showing them here.

I sure hope Mr QuackQuack is alright.