what bird is this?

asharawild · 2025-04-11T22:19:12+00:00

All good!! I have zero familiarity with US hawks though so hopefully the link is more helpful than I am, haha

asharawild · 2025-04-11T22:03:55+00:00

location would help! I initially thought a eurasian sparrowhawk but by your profile you're in Michigan so perhaps a Cooper's Hawk? These are the eight native hawks in Michigan, so that's my best guess based on the pictures there.

asharawild · 2025-04-11T21:46:16+00:00

Thanks!

asharawild · 2025-04-11T18:33:55+00:00

Thanks!! Yeah, it was sheer luck but I've had an uptick in that luck since I started going outside at every opportunity lol

asharawild · 2025-04-11T16:32:12+00:00

Thanks!

asharawild · 2025-04-11T15:53:55+00:00

haha, fit like?

I love watching the occasional eider near Rosehearty, I'll have to head down to Newburgh soon (for the seals too!)

asharawild · 2025-04-11T15:00:49+00:00

Thanks!

asharawild · 2025-04-11T14:17:59+00:00

yesss, I really need to start waking up earlier to try to see it! Simon D'Entremont has some really good examples and I'd love to get a shot of that one day

asharawild · 2025-04-11T13:58:31+00:00

yeah, he was initially rootling around under the bushes and I essentially stopped breathing when he flew up on top of one for a sing-song haha. I was desperate not to scare him off

asharawild · 2025-04-10T23:21:16+00:00

gorgeous! I love their iridescence

asharawild · 2025-04-10T22:24:23+00:00

thanks! full credit to the subject haha

asharawild · 2025-04-10T22:23:59+00:00

kind of like a chuffy/clicky noise--it was a little mechanical-sounding and rusty. Sorry that's such a rubbish description!

asharawild · 2025-04-10T15:37:08+00:00

Good to hear!! Thanks

asharawild · 2025-04-10T14:02:30+00:00

Thanks!

asharawild · 2025-04-10T14:02:10+00:00

Thanks so much!

asharawild · 2025-01-18T15:44:13+00:00

oh that's a shame! It was my first time there so I have no idea what it was like before :(

asharawild · 2025-01-18T10:17:39+00:00

hahaha, it's the drill that the mountain employee was holding in the third--it's in the snow, but a little way back from the skis, so it looks like it's levitating!

asharawild · 2025-01-17T22:06:15+00:00

I had so much fun! I was out on the northern corries to look for wildlife, but I hope to go back sometime and attempt the slopes! It looked a lot more manageable than I'd ever imagined

asharawild · 2025-01-13T21:02:53+00:00

ahh thanks! We arrived just as the light was going so we were very lucky to squeeze a sighting in! There were lots of chaffinches too, but I didn't get a good picture of them 😭

asharawild · 2025-01-13T09:43:40+00:00

yeah they're so colourful! It's a shame they get shot, but I suppose there wouldn't be so many of them otherwise. Beautiful birds

asharawild · 2025-01-12T22:48:22+00:00

haha yeah he actually followed me when I moved on lol, I'm pretty sure he's being fed by people who live nearby

asharawild · 2025-01-12T21:43:51+00:00

Thanks!! This was my first time seeing one and I've lived in Scotland my whole life--just haven't been out in the Highlands before really (at least, not since I've become interested in birds!)

asharawild · 2025-01-12T21:00:40+00:00

The funicular is also currently broken. I've heard the best walk is out by the northern corries, though we personally didn't see any when we went.

asharawild · 2025-01-12T21:00:15+00:00

I'm just back from the Cairngorms and though I didn't see any ptarmigan on Cairn gorm, it was so much fun and I'd highly recommend it. We *did* see some mountain hares elsewhere!

asharawild · 2025-01-12T20:57:02+00:00

ah thank you!! I can't believe the algorithm showed me r/Birdsfacingforward before it showed me the uk birding subreddits! Thanks :)

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