An Encounter with a Cooper’s Hawk
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After a week of kingfishers and herons down at the water, Sellwood Park handed me something with a very different job description. A predator. I had an encounter with a
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A Perfect Afternoon at Oaks Bottom: Hawks, Otters, and Herons in Flight
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There are mornings that remind you why you carry a camera. My recent walk into Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge turned into one of those days: a red-tailed hawk quartering the
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The Merlin That Wasn’t — A Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk at Oaks Bottom
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I published this as my first merlin. It is a juvenile Cooper’s hawk. Here is the correction, and the four field marks that separate a hawk from a falcon. … Continue readingThe Merlin That Wasn’t — A Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk at Oaks Bottom
A Red-Tailed Hawk close encounter
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This morning’s walk through Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge I had a close encounter with a Red Tailed Hawk that was clearly used to human presence. Perched high on a telephone