sptsman
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Can't say I've ever seen one but it appears we have one near us in NW St. Charles County. Saw it last week from about 75 -100 yards but it was flying and landed in a tree. With no foliage on the trees and the turns it made as it lit in the tree, I got a relatively good look at it. No question it is a hawk of some sort and no question is was white as snow. Appeared to be about the size of a Red-Tailed hawk.
Keeping my eyes peeled for it now. Hoping to get a better look and a pic.
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67Firebird
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That would be cool to see.
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wuchang
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Sounds like a cool dealio
If it was a Snowy Owl--- bird nerds would be clogging up the roadways of St Chuck to see it
Hell, I might even have to head that direction and see about photographing it LOL
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sptsman
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About 90% sure it was not a snowy owl but I was 95% sure Barack Obama wouldn't win the White House once, much less twice. We have plenty of owls out our way and I'm pretty sure I would have Id'd it as an owl from that distance...
Unfortunately, my only sidekicks were an 11 and 6 year-old, on the way home from school and I did not have my field glasses (I'm told that's what birders call binoculars and I want to sound sophisticated). It was on Church Rd., halfway between the 90 degree turn and Freymuth Rd. We see an eagle there at least once a week, sometimes 2-3 times a week. The eagle and various hawks love the trees that start on the crest of Church Rd. and go to the North. The first tree is a big dead or dying tree, right by the road. Not hard to find.
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wuchang
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sptsman said:
About 90% sure it was not a snowy owl but I was 95% sure Barack Obama wouldn't win the White House once, much less twice. We have plenty of owls out our way and I'm pretty sure I would have Id'd it as an owl from that distance...
Unfortunately, my only sidekicks were an 11 and 6 year-old, on the way home from school and I did not have my field glasses (I'm told that's what birders call binoculars and I want to sound sophisticated). It was on Church Rd., halfway between the 90 degree turn and Freymuth Rd. We see an eagle there at least once a week, sometimes 2-3 times a week. The eagle and various hawks love the trees that start on the crest of Church Rd. and go to the North. The first tree is a big dead or dying tree, right by the road. Not hard to find.
Thanks
Trying to decide if I want to head for Two Rivers or BK, Cannon or go big and head to Mound City where they have around 1200 swans and 70 k of white sky rats
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sptsman
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BK had a pretty good mess of snows on the refuge Sunday afternoon. They were 300-400 yard off M, just North of the flooded weeds they call refuge. Pretty hard to miss.
Good luck wherever you go. Lots of birds around
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