Saturday, January 21, 2012

Backyard Cooper's Hawks; Snowy Owl Utube link

The Brooklyn Bird Club received a few inquiries to identify /confirm a hawk species seen in a few Brooklyn backyards this week. One was a juvenile Coopers Hawk south of Prospect Park; today's email I looked at is from the Carroll Gardens section, with a photo taken by Oona Stern . It's a really nice photo:

Cooper's Hawk in Carroll Gardens backyard taken by Oona Stern




Given this winter's Snowy Owl irruption, I couldn't resist inserting this link from Cornell's Ornithological website. Its such a terrific and beautiful slide /video from Utube.Hopefully , you could get one out there somewhere this winter.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufkcx-UqljM&feature=player_embedded#!





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