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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Wow! What an experience - I'm very envious!
issybird is quite right and you are rather out of my flight path but of course this got me intrigued so I have done a bit of googling. The best one I have been able to come up with at short notice (we are about to dash off to the beach for a few days) is a Cooper's Hawk. I'll attach a shot I pulled off the web.
I'll be interested to hear if you are able to get a more expert ID than mine, which wouldn't be hard.
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Great pictures! I never seem to be able to get such excellent candid shots! Thank you for sharing them.
I'll pass on an interesting experience though. We have lots of song birds in our area with Magpies being generally at the top of the dominance pyramid. But we live close to the sea and once we heard an almighty thump on the roof of the sun room. We ran out and saw a huge black-back gull! It has a wing span of 5 1/2 feet and while not a raptor is fiercely predatory, fearless, and aggressive. It has a huge sharp yellow bill. The one sitting on our roof was being teased by a couple of magpies--which appeared miniature in contrast. We wondered why they were taking such a chance but we now believe they were keeping him away from their nests. In the end he flew away, probably to get easier prey (which includes ordinary seagulls.)