Cooper's Hawk

Posted by Mako_Elite on Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:07 am

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Shot few weeks ago. I was spending time with GH-Owls in the woods when one fledgling landed really close to me to the right.
I took of my TC-301 (2.0X TC). Shortly after this Cooper's Hawk landed on same branch where owl was 7-8 feet apart. Hawk was noise and make small movements towards the owl trying to intimidate ...no luck. Owl didn't not care at all...zero fear and went back to sleep. Hawk's ego got crushed and flew away. There was no question here who the boss was. Owl would eat that hawk for a dinner.
I have seen this behavior in the same woods between Cooper's Hawks and Great-horned Owls before. Owls never showed any fear of the Cooper's Hawks.

D3s, 500mm f/4 P ED IF
1/160, ISO-5000, f/5, handheld.

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by owlseye on Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:08 am

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Nice job... and a very interesting story to boot.
I have never seen a Cooper's Hawk fan its tail like this... nice job catching the peak expansion here.

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by Karl Egressy on Sun Aug 18, 2019 8:00 am

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Nice story and an excellent image to boot, Ludo. Love the fanned tail.

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by david fletcher on Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:14 am

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super shot Ludo. Interesting news about the feisty Hawk. Must be shattering to have one's ego crushed but at least it had the sense to drop the issue. (once saw a pair of male Capercaillie, fighting, filmed by a Swedish Photographer, when one was taken out by a Golden Eagle. The other stupid bird decided to attack the Eagle. Ended up as dinner mk II).

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by Ron Day on Sun Aug 18, 2019 2:55 pm

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The fanned tail makes this special, Ludo. Lovely dappled lighting and good detail. Also, thanks for the interesting information about the Cooper Hawk and Great-horned Owl.

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by Carol Clarke on Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:59 pm

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Interesting story about their behaviour, Ludo! Good timing to catch that full fanned tail and lovely detail overall!

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by GirishP on Tue Aug 20, 2019 5:41 am