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Buteo lineatus
Happy Mother's Day! The mother hawk appears to be reassuring her nestling after jays, crows, and some other small but vociferous birds mobbed the nest. This happens many times a day (it gets really noisy back there!) and is often broken up and quieted down by one or both of the parents making a defensive show around the treetops. I'm amazed at how the parents can maneuver almost silently through dense limbs and disappear completely only to reappear from a completely different direction.
Spotted in a tall pine tree in my backyard.
Previous related spottings: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/177... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/216... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/234...
Spotted on May 12, 2013
Submitted on May 14, 2013
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