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By adamg on Sun, 12/14/2014 - 10:08am
How'd you like to walk out your door Sunday morning and be greeted by this fine specimen? Molly Hester spotted the bird on a Cambridgeport front porch this morning.
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weird
Never seen a brown pigeon before
With this bird around
You probably will see fewer pigeons of any sort in this neighborhood if this one stays. That looks like a juvenile red tail hawk. Large size = female.
Cambridgeport you say? Fewer drones, too.
Or marsh hawk
Low-perching and low-flying is more likely to be a marsh hawk. I've seen plenty of them around the Fenway. They attack on a low glide. One took a squirrel right in front of me on Queensberry Street once, then sat on it and gave me a look like, "You want some?"
Brown pigeons
I know you were making a joke, but there actually are brown pigeons. I have seen them on occasion. They tend to be light brown, with some white. They're not too common.
Cliff Clavin
painted brown pigeons.
Brown pigeons--there are plenty of them around.
This bird, however, didn't look like a pigeon. He looked like a young hawk of some sort of other.
He's so cute, though!
He looks like
the guest from last night's party who lost his cell phone and dropped by as soon as he woke up, hoping he'd left it there.
Adorable!
Love these hawks!
And they really do seem to be everywhere, these days. Yay, nature!
yeah
Sometimes i hear screeching and look up and see 3 or 4 of hawk looking things circling around
One time i was mowing the lawn and saw a shadow approach me from behind and a hawk swooped right above my head..guess i looked tasty. Or he wanted my beer.
Target Acquired!
I had an incident on the Muddy River path where I saw a squirrel cross the path about 50 yards ahead and immediately got WHOOOSHED by a hawk that came so close that I had a feather in my helmet!
It took a couple of seconds to get the bike back under control, but, whoh. The squirrel did not fare so very well.
A friend who does wildlife rehab told me that it isn't uncommon for a hawk to lock in on a target and run into something that moves into the way or that they didn't account for - like a panel truck or, in my case, a cyclist. Once they go for it, they can't stop.
I have heard that its not
I have heard that its not uncommon for bald eagles to die in their pursuit of dinner because they refuse to give up.
I figure thats why they are our national symbol
Bald Eagles are also "Opportunists"
That is, they wait until someone else has gotten the prey, then try to steal it. I've actually seen this happen. An osprey caught a fish, then we saw an eagle launch from his tree towards the osprey. He chased for awhile and gave up.
I'd love to see something like that
I follow hawks a lot but have never seen one take anything. That must have been one of those "What just happened?" moments. Very cool.
I had friends who were golfing, hanging around a tee watching a rabbit only 10 feet away. They never saw the hawk that swooped right between two of the guys and took the rabbit.
Crows do not like hawks...
Usually when I hear a lot of noise, it's usually crows who are trying to get the hawk to go away. They gang up on a hawk and get him to leave their territory. I suspect squirrels know to hide when they hear the crows.
Turkey Vultures
If you see a bunch of them circling - that's what they most likely are. Hawks/Eagles tend to be more solitary. I see turkey vultures in large groups all the time in Florida when I go down over the winter - have noticed a lot of them up here in the summer in the last year or two.