I did have a huge buzzsard circling me yesterday while I was in a hay field. I guess you might say that he was buzzing me. I must look worse than I thought.
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Identify this bird
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That is the infamous Treehawk ...
Free bird!!!
My house backs up to wooded area full of owls and hawks. There is one in particular I have to watch out for. He is a huge sucker. I have a little Pomeranian and Chi Wawa mix and she is tiny. Her little snout is no bigger that the end of your thumb. She would make a nice little snack for this huge bird of prey. It's literally the size of an eagle. I use to live in Oklahoma and due to the wheat fields there were an absurd amount of field mice. So there were a million hawks there. The one's that had the white ring around the tail feather. Now I have seen some big hawks but nothing like this thing that sits out on the branch real close to our house. I am so paranoid it's going to go for little Lucy I stand out in the yard with a long stick while she is out even though our yard is fenced in. If I don't know what kind of bird it is but this bastard is at least two and a half feet tall if not bigger. Biggest bird of prey I have ever seen. It looks very similar to the pic you posted. Big muscular looking SOM BiT*h. Pretty but fierce looking. Wing span has to be at least 5 feet. I have pics but it's to far to get a clear image. If I had a real good camera with some zoom I could get a good pic and Identify it.
By ‘buzzed’ I meant it flew close enough to startle her. Kinda like those Russian pilots do to our spy planes.
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One night at our last house a big owl swooped down at my Pit Bull. I don't know what it was thinking but when it go down to about 5 feet Opie my Pits name, jumped up and tried to take a chomp out it. I have never heard wings flapping like that before in my life. That owl must have said " holy sh*t , what in the hell was I thinking. I have got to get something to eat before I do something stupid like that again".
Pics of Coopers show smaller legs and different color patterns.
Better pics would help, so maybe we’ll get some more pics soon.
Better pics would help, so maybe we’ll get some more pics soon.
