Smaller Birds in Winter and the Cooper's Hawk Stalking Them



Young Cooper's Hawk looking for a meal

We have had significant and long lasting snow cover this year. One serendipitous consequence of this was that birds were more visible around feeders and backyards. Song birds have been visiting my backyard feeders in numbers I've not seen before. And this has not gone unnoticed by the hawks in the area. I have a Cooper's Hawk regularly stalking the branches of the trees in the backyard in hopes of obtaining a song bird blue plate special.

Song Sparrow

Blue Jay tossing snow around

Blue Jay

Mourning Dove


Junco (female)

Junco (male)

Tufted Titmouse

Tufted Titmouse

American Tree Sparrow

American Tree Sparrow

A mixed flock of sparrows

Carolina Wren

Still waiting...

Comments

  1. geaninaMarch 17, 2011 at 12:01 PM

    absolutely wonderful!

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  2. RudyMarch 22, 2011 at 3:59 AM

    Thank you sharing these nice photographs.

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  3. Deepesh RuhelaMarch 31, 2011 at 3:45 AM

    Wow, simply amazing, Thanks for sharing such lovely pics....

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  4. Lexmark 3April 5, 2011 at 11:16 PM

    You have perfectly captured the images of birds during the winter season! Fabulous!

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  5. khairulApril 6, 2011 at 1:23 AM

    beautiful.. i really love it

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  6. foto su telaApril 20, 2011 at 3:53 AM

    Very wonderfull!!!

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  7. art suppliesApril 26, 2011 at 4:37 AM

    How lucky you are to have such an array of different birds!

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  8. HavenMay 1, 2011 at 4:43 AM

    Thanks for the nice post.

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  9. Awesome HD WallpapersMay 16, 2011 at 2:12 PM

    Really Nice and Awesome Pictures
    They remind me of DH Lawrence's Essay Whistling of Birds

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