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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2010-01-23 05:50 pm

Urban Nature Pictures day 23



Bird of prey (probably a Cooper's hawk) standing in the Muddy River for some reason.

[identity profile] propaddict.livejournal.com 2010-01-24 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
Posts like this make me wish LiveJournal had a "Like" button. I have no real comment, I just "Like" it.

[identity profile] deathling.livejournal.com 2010-01-24 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
HAH! I've never seen a bird of prey do that. He's just randomly chillin, in the river.

[identity profile] bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com 2010-01-24 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Hoping for sushi dinner? Washing his feet? Realized you were coming and wanted to confuse the heck out of you?

(I vote for that last one.)

[identity profile] ankhanu.livejournal.com 2010-01-26 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, looks a little big to be a sharp-shinned, not big enough for goshawk...

Interesting find to say the least. They're not a common species up here (sharp-shins are more common), and that's some odd behaviour... hard to say WHAT it might have been doing. Perhaps it's trying to go Lemarckian and become waterfowl!