Cool feathered visitor.

Zymurgy

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I live at a lake community in central Ohio, but my home is off the water. I have several big trees on my property and while sitting on my deck enjoying a nice evening, I thought I saw a hawk land in our big oak. We have several redtail hawks and they are some what common visitors.

Upon closer examination I thought it was a juvenile bald eagle.(correction it is a juvenile red tail damn)This was still cool. We have had 4 eagles on our lake for the last few years. Still a great end to a very pleasant evening.

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Very cool.

And I had a pair of THESE looking down on me for several weeks in March and April. Kinda intimidating. Glad I'm not a mouse....
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I think he is here for the night. He has been there for an hour and half and the sun is setting. It would be cool if he decides to build a nest here.

I have no cats and my dog weighs 65lbs, but my squirrel population may go down if he stays. My neighbor has a 2 acre pond 100 feet from my oak in the back yard, so it might be a good area for him.
 
I think he’s a year or two from “making a nest”!

A bald’s “area” is huge They are the top of the food chain, and devour lots of lesser sources of protein over that area. My Balds vanished after a few weeks, then back again a month later as the food supply recovered. Lots of hunger and murder out there!!
 
We back up onto a wooded escarpment and usually hear the Red Tail Hawks before we see them hanging in air circling since they have a distinctive cry. A few years back they had a nest behind our place and through the spring and early summer it was nice to see the young ones move about in the trees. The young ones are very vocal. What is funny is that we have been fooled by Blue Jays who in this area have learned to mimic the Red Tail cry presumably to spook other birds out of their nest so they can rob the eggs/young.
 
We back up onto a wooded escarpment and usually hear the Red Tail Hawks before we see them hanging in air circling since they have a distinctive cry. A few years back they had a nest behind our place and through the spring and early summer it was nice to see the young ones move about in the trees. The young ones are very vocal. What is funny is that we have been fooled by Blue Jays who in this area have learned to mimic the Red Tail cry presumably to spook other birds out of their nest so they can rob the eggs/young.

Yes the young ones are very vocal. I was working on a house a few weeks ago, where a young one carried on the whole week and a half that I was there.
 
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