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[*] posted on 9-28-2012 at 11:23 AM
Harris Hawk


Saw this guy when I went out to check the road this morning.




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[*] posted on 9-28-2012 at 11:26 AM


Great photography... he's/she's a beauty!!!
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[*] posted on 9-28-2012 at 11:48 AM


Thanks, an interesting raptor ... just read where they hunt in "groups" ... didn't know that ...

Appears to be "eyeballing" you ...




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[*] posted on 9-28-2012 at 08:06 PM


Pretty bird Russ.
Nice shot.




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[*] posted on 9-28-2012 at 09:04 PM


Vary nice looking bird
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[*] posted on 9-29-2012 at 08:25 AM


"hunt in groups"....i saw three or four of those guys tearing the hell out of a rabbit on the chivato road last winter....give us a rain update russ!!



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[*] posted on 9-29-2012 at 03:12 PM


Nice photo, thanks.



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[*] posted on 9-29-2012 at 07:43 PM


GREAT PHOTO RUSS!
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[*] posted on 9-30-2012 at 12:18 PM


I caught these near the Chivato airstrip in Feb, 2011. Sorry about the poor quality- I've upgraded my camera since then (although not my skills, sorry to say). I was told the Harris hawks are perhaps the only raptors which a gregarious.

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[*] posted on 10-1-2012 at 08:04 PM


OUTSTANDING!
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[*] posted on 10-2-2012 at 10:13 PM


NICE Russ! That is a bad a$$ bird!
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[*] posted on 10-2-2012 at 10:18 PM


Appears ya got some friends ... thanks :):)

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[*] posted on 10-5-2012 at 07:12 AM


one of my favorite birds. great shot!
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