Hello,
I've just joined the forum, and look forward to becoming more active. I've just returned from two weeks on Cape Cod where we observed a huge variety of birds at the feeders in the backyard, and on the marsh. Many more osprey this year, two great blue herons, egrets, least bitterns, cormorants, kingfisher (a first for me!), plovers, tiny plover-like birds along the muddy banks that I could not ID, and gulls on the marsh. A flock of Canada geese arrived just two days before we left. The usual ground birds on land: jays, cardinals, nuthatches, finches, wrens, sparrows (including a marsh sparrow), tufted titmouse, beautiful red-bellied woodpeckers, crows (noisy and disrupted the whole scene each morning!), mourning doves, kingbird, hummingbirds, turkey vultures. A feast of birds...
Then my friend who had visited with me on the Cape emailed this photo of a bird in her backyard in Germany, outside of Cologne. Obviously a hawk, but I cannot find a photo to ID it. Does anyone know what kind of hawk this is - looks a bit like a falcon, and looks quite big. She said it had just eaten a crow and was very unafraid of her presence at the window. It's magnificent...
I've just joined the forum, and look forward to becoming more active. I've just returned from two weeks on Cape Cod where we observed a huge variety of birds at the feeders in the backyard, and on the marsh. Many more osprey this year, two great blue herons, egrets, least bitterns, cormorants, kingfisher (a first for me!), plovers, tiny plover-like birds along the muddy banks that I could not ID, and gulls on the marsh. A flock of Canada geese arrived just two days before we left. The usual ground birds on land: jays, cardinals, nuthatches, finches, wrens, sparrows (including a marsh sparrow), tufted titmouse, beautiful red-bellied woodpeckers, crows (noisy and disrupted the whole scene each morning!), mourning doves, kingbird, hummingbirds, turkey vultures. A feast of birds...
Then my friend who had visited with me on the Cape emailed this photo of a bird in her backyard in Germany, outside of Cologne. Obviously a hawk, but I cannot find a photo to ID it. Does anyone know what kind of hawk this is - looks a bit like a falcon, and looks quite big. She said it had just eaten a crow and was very unafraid of her presence at the window. It's magnificent...
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