📍 Irvine, CA
🗓️ December 19, 2024
📷 Sony a7iii, Canon FD 300mm f/4 L w/ FD Extender 2x-A, 1/2000th, ISO 500

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Agility in the open sky. 🌿 This Cooper's Hawk was effortlessly patrolling the thermal currents this afternoon, showing off those classic barred tail feathers against the New Mexico blue. 🪶✨
📍 Albuquerque, New Mexico
🏷️ @canonusa
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1 There has been a pair of these hawks (I think it's just a pair, but could be wrong, not sure how large their territories are) around for the last number of years, once or twice nesting right on the acreage in the woods just behind the house. We thought they might be choosing the acreage again this year (vs further out onto the farm in the contiguous woods), but today I saw them some distance out.
#birds #CoopersHawk #Alberta #Canada #CountryLiving #nature

#RVA Immature #CoopersHawk I believe

My gateway to bird photography: in 2021 a pair of Cooper’s Hawks built a nest in the yard and raised a chick, which rapidly morphed from a cute ball of cottony fluff into a skillful apex predator. Here he is somewhere in-between. Nicknamed “Anderson Cooper’s Hawk” (parents: Sadie Hawkins and Agent Cooper) quickly grew indifferent to the human who regularly pointed a 2013-era camera at him. #hawk #CoopersHawk #GatewayBird #photography #birds #birders #BirdWatching #BirdWatchers #California #LosAngeles #BirdPhoto #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdADay #DailyBird #BirdOfTheDay #LARiver #LosAngelesRiver #Opus1000 #BirdsOfMastodon #cute #NaturePhotos #LAWildlife

A Cooper’s Hawk in the Old Woods

A Cooper's Hawk had been calling all week. Yesterday I finally found it!

https://islandinthenet.com/a-coopers-hawk-in-the-old-woods/

A Cooper's hawk shows off their camouflage. Unfortunately, their calls give their location away. #NeighborhoodBirds #CoopersHawk #birding #HawkPants