October 4, 2010

Parents weekend

This past weekend my parents came out for a visit and got a chance to see some of what I've been doing. Though the days were really (very) slow with hawks, they got to see a few shins come in and at least get a good idea of how exactly things function at the station. The nights were a different story however, with two of our biggest nights at 85 and 69 saw whets and it got kind of crazy.

Despite the lack of hawks and a bit of rain, my dad came out of the trip with an awesome set of pictures which I will gradually be putting up pictures from.

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Photo by my pa

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Photo by my pa

The day before they came we actually had a great hawk day, with 4 goshawks and a redtail. RT on left, G on right:
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Gos scream a lot
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American pipit's long back talon
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My parents did get some stellar rainbows
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Black backed woodpecker
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Saw whet with a white talon
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Posted by Sambob at 6:17 PM
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2 comments:

  1. tiinaboothOctober 4, 2010 at 7:23 PM

    Great to see your parents out there, Sambob! Darden is "truly envious" of what you are doing. Do the hawks ever try to bite your face when you are holding their feet like that?

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  2. AmandaOctober 4, 2010 at 9:25 PM

    I saw a bird this weekend that I couldn't find in the MN book. Looks like it was a Black backed woodpecker!

    Echoing the face biting question-- do they?

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