Red-Shouldered Hawk on Lightpost
I finally got a video of the red-shouldered hawk out of the rain! Here he/she is on a lightpost in my cul-de-sac!
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They really are lovely birds. We have different hawks here but I've only seen the most common ones from a distance, apart from going to hawk flying displays.
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I agree that they are quite amazing birds. Never thought I'd ever have such up close experience with them. I also just wrote a blog post about one of their feathers; reasonably sure it is a hawk...
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That is a really intense colour isn't it, I'm sure you're right and it is from one of the hawks. Here's another instance of differences between our dialects of English - we would call those lamp posts...
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florentine wrote:That is a really intense colour isn't it, I'm sure you're right and it is from one of the hawks. Here's another instance of differences between our dialects of English - we would call...
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Hmmm ... let me think about it ... nope, it's a light post or lightpost ... not lamp post. No matter how many times I try to think of it as a lamp. For the most part, lights are what's outside and...
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Goes back to the old days - originally they were naked flame, for example, carriage lamps which hung on the side of carriages so people could see them coming at night, but also street lighting. Then...
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Yes ... street lights or street lighting! And, yes ... headlights! For the life of me, can't bring myself to use lamps.
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