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
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
Tagged as: Bird-watching, hunting, Okanagan, Winter
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The Okanagan in History: Table of Contents
I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.
“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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