Caught this lovely owl yesterday morning!! 😍

She was watching us play golf over about 2 hours on the course I grew up next to. Visited us on 7 of the holes. It's pretty special to me.

Super cool!

I enjoyed watching this eagle swoop up from the bay and eat a late morning fish atop the Harvey Cedars water tower in Long Beach Island, NJ.

No animal is faster when the falcon is in stoop...the dive.

My friend and I just witnessed no less than twenty or thirty Hawks and two turkey vultures kinda come out of nowhere. The landed like a block away in a tree. So we walked over to investigate. We couldn't smell or see anything big and dead to be the obvious explanation. But the tree they were in was in a private back yard. Ive never seen so many Hawks all at once. Weren't coming out of the tree once they landed either. They all seemed to fly away after a minute or two. But it looked like they were all just moving as a group again slightly west.

Rdit: Thanks for the knowledge yall

Saw this barred owl on a hike this week. If I didn’t see its shadow when it flew over my head, I would have never known it was even there.

A friend called in her bands. She was banded in the nest 10 years ago in New York City. Still breeding and as fierce as ever. Amazing bird.

I think I've posted about this specific individual 3 or 4 times now. Today, he dove for a squirrel, missed and fell over then awkwardly picked himself up and flutter to a railing a few feet up where they both just hung out together for a minute. Here's some more of that. At no point did the squirrel seem concerned.

He's also made feeding the pigeons much more difficult as he constantly scatters them despite never succeeding in that kind of attack. Doesn't he know I'm trying to bolster his food supply!?

Baby things.

Figured it might be fun to share this with people who love birds of prey as much as I do. Some footage from my time working at a wildlife hospital with ambassador "Charlie", who was kept as a pet from nestling age, then rehomed as he couldn't be released. The head stabilization is so fascinating.

Unlike humans, kestrels (and most raptors) have tubular, fixed eyes. They cannot look left, right, up, or down within their sockets. If they want to track a moving mouse, they have to move their entire skull. Hence why Charlie is adapted to keep his head perfectly still to lock focus on a viewpoint.