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Does anyone know what type of Bird of Prey/Falcon is nesting in Schiller Park?
They have nested in the large tree to the Northeast of the Rec Building, and I saw one hunting down on Bruck Street last week.
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Bird of Prey nesting in Schiller Park?
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Core_Models
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They've been there for years and years, there's multiple families of them I believe. Most of us early morning dog people have seen them dive bomb squirrels, and a friend of mine's back yard is their squirrel bone dumping ground across the street from the park. I'm PRETTY sure at least one group is Coopershawks.
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lazyfish
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Cool, glad to hear there are hawks in Schiller too....Coopers prey of choice is small songbirds, the odd, sick squirrel when times are tough maybe, they like to hunt by diving at their prey in flight, colliding with them at high rates of speed and sending them crashing to the ground. The prolific squirrel killers are the red tails. After 5-7 years of nesting coopers in Goodale,they were chased off by a young red tail couple, who after 2 years of residence in the tallest tree in the park, where finally spooked and driven away by goofy tree climbing fools, the squirrels run amok in the Park to this day.
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pixiecrinkle
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Very interesting about them being chased out of Goodale. I got irrationally excited on Sunday evening when my gf came inside and said "I think one of your falcons is outside" (I am obsessed with the live feed when the babies are on the Rhodes Tower, hence "my" falcons.)
I took a couple of shots, and was able to determine from some quick internet research that this was likely not a falcon, but a Cooper's Hawk, chiefly due to the length ratio of wings to tailfeathers.
Taken near the intersection of High and Olentangy in Clintonville.
(Blurry, but he was on the top of a tree taller than our four story building, and I was zoomed all the way in.)
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patient_zero
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A few years ago this young Cooper's Hawk was sitting in my dead herb garden for several hours that I thought it was ill or injured. When I went out to check on it at dusk, it simply flew away. I imagine the dead branches looked and felt like a nest.
When I don't see birds by my feeder it's usually because the Cooper's Hawk is in a nearby tree waiting for a meal.
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patient_zero
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hugh59 wrote >>
What? The Bird of Prey was not using it's cloaking device? Any sign of its crew?It's cloaking device was penetrated by the quantum beacon emanating from my laptop. You never can be too safe. This Bird of Prey was remotely shuttled by the Romulan Tal Shiar on an intelligence gathering mission. No crew were present.
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kcrissinger
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Seeing hawks in the city is a great thing. About two years ago, we were sitting in the parking lot of the Confluence after a clean-up at North Bank. A nest of rabbits had been disturbed by mowers (not ours, we were just cleaning up trash along the river bank). This particular baby rabbit would not stay in the newly rebuilt nest. As we sat there eating the after clean-up grub, a red-tail swooped right by our heads and grabbed the baby rabbit. It was sad, but awesome to see.
I live across the street from Westgate Park and see hawks (mostly Coopers, but some red-tails) on a daily basis. They are awesome.
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lilbit
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What a timely post! I just saw a hawk of some kind hanging out on Livingston Ave. this afternoon. I had no idea there was a whole crew of them living in German Village. Don't know if what I saw was a Cooper's hawk or a falcon or what. I'll have to keep an eye out now...
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hugh59
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There is at least one red tail hawk in the Eastmoor area (near Broad and James). I was walking out of the door of my mom's house and I saw a hawk taking off with some unlucky critter in its claws. The world just had to go on with one less rodent.
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hugh59
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And then there is this story from June 2009 about a bird encounter in New York City:
Excuse me waiter, but there is a large bird of prey in my soup.
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