Tag Archives: Coopers Hawks

Thanksgiving Weekend Critters

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I fired up the trailcam in the backyard. It captured this handsome tuxedo cat sneaking up on something. We have all sorts of field mice and small birds hanging around the backyard.

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It looks like he is looking at the overturned barrel planter.

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Earlier in the day a squirrel was checking out the wheelbarrow.

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Back the next day checking out the barrel.

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We had another Coopers Hawk perched on our back fence right above the wheel barrow.

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He stayed there quite a while and kept looking at the ground. I’m sure he was hungry.

Here’s our little Kodi dog, the Pomeranian sporting his Thanksgiving hairdo and tie. I swear he prances around after a new hairdo.

And here’s Lizzy with a Thanksgiving nap. She’s a championship napper. Nobody naps like a cat.

I hope everybody who celebrates Thanksgiving had a good one. Ours was a little quiet this year.

I’m linking with Saturday’s Critters.

New Trail Cam!

I have a new gadget to play with! A trail cam (GardePro A3) that I got this week and started “messing with.” Trying to figure out how it works.

So I have a couple tripods that I have been using, a short one, and a tall one to mount the thing on. All I have is a typical suburban lot, no trails nor woods. Just my back yard.

So what I have been capturing are squirrels, cardinals, blue jays, and lots of sparrows at our backyard feeders.

I’m really loving the cardinals.

Lots of seed spills on the ground so I have spent some time capturing that.

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So far it has been lots of fun. I have it on motion sensing and it takes one still photo and ten seconds of video.

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So I end up with lots and lots of images and video and I’m finding that it takes some time to wade through it to get unique captures.

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This juvenile Coopers Hawk showed up and checked things out. I captured its image with a conventional camera through my living room window.. I’m sure they like the feeders also. We see bird and squirrel parts every once in a while. I think there is a nest close by. I have seen other hawks in our yard the last month or so.

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The first evening I had the trail cam I set it on the back patio to see if any big critters showed up, and just me!!

So, you veteran trail camera people, do you have any good tips for me?

I’m linking with Eileen’s Saturday’s Critters. Come join the fun.