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Wed, Feb 17, 10 at 12:43
| It appears to be predator central lately near my yard. I have gotten several coyotes and now 3 hawks at once. Two of the large hawks are flying all around. In the mean time, I notice a third smaller hawk flying into the tree cover and stay there for a while. In the mean time, all of the other birds and squirrel and hiding in the tree branches above the hawk. If it was doing an ambush, it was a lousy place to do it, so I was wondering if it was trying to hide from the two larger hawks.
I wish I was better at identifying the species of hawks. The larger ones seems to have white belly. The smaller one had orangish color belly. Paul |
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| Its sounds like you probably have a pair of Red tails and probably a sharpie or Coopers Hawk. In general, Hawks don't prey on other healthy adult Hawks. Larger Hawks will attack the nests of smaller hawks. About the only exception is probably a large Goshawk would have smaller Hawks on the menu and be able to catch them. But in your case, a Red tail trying to catch a Sharpie is like a Suburban trying to catch a Corvette. In one of the few studies I've seen, the highest Sharpie mortality was from owl predation, which leads them to roost in dense cover. Your probably just seeing an increase in raptor activity as Hawks begin pairing up and will start nesting in a few weeks. |
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