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Feb 21st 2014, 11:41 am

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Re: Winter wildlife

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Originally Posted by Kneeno

Bears. Mother-in-law had one sniffing round the squirrel feeder a few nights ago. She gets them every winter.

Now THAT would scare me a bit.

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Originally Posted by Nutmegger

Does it look a bit like this Sharp Shinned Hawk?

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/S...hinned_Hawk/id

Aha, that looks to be a much better match to the colouring in Yellowroom's photo! (Really pretty colours in the stippling.)

I don't even have the sharp-shinned hawk in my bird book, but then it's an older book..... I do have a Coopers hawk, with Nutmegger's link says are very similar. I thought the tail of the Coopers hawk was longer, or I'd have suggested it. Hmmm.