At 15 Below, all the little chickadees were in the weeds, and the hawk came by over my left shoulder at 1 metre altitude, seeing who it could spook.
While it was in view, it missed three.
Categories: Grasslands, Nature Photography
Okanagan Okanogan
Reclaiming the Art of Living on the Earth
“Our” goshawk takes an average of five tries to get a pigeon in flight. We watched a shrike work for about fifteen minutes to get the chickadees to fly across an opening. They use the Villosa lilacs we planting years ago as bird cover as . . . cover.
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Cool. The hawk that haunts this hill uses saskatoon as a blind. I like the sharp-shinned hawk, who just dives into the branches all willy-nilly.
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I guess it’s a female harrier?
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No idea!
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White patch on rump, wings tilted above horizonal, flying low and then sort of pouncing. (Male is grey and smaller.)
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Beautiful bird, thanks! That’s the behaviour, all right.
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