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8 birds of prey working together?
Posted on 6/27/13 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 6/27/13 at 3:38 pm
So, I looked out my window towards the river a minute ago and saw 8 kites all darting and dancing about 15 feet over the river. They were a decent distance away, so I had some trouble getting pics, but I got 3 decent ones:
In all my years, I've never seen more than 2 adults together, so it definitely caught my attention. At first I was thinking they were kites, but the tail doesn't look "vee" enough.
I really wish I could have gotten better pics, but my camera up here only has so much zoom.
In all my years, I've never seen more than 2 adults together, so it definitely caught my attention. At first I was thinking they were kites, but the tail doesn't look "vee" enough.
I really wish I could have gotten better pics, but my camera up here only has so much zoom.
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Posted on 6/27/13 at 3:40 pm to Jester
ETA - if it helps to identify them, their color markings almost remind me of a typical grey pigeon.
Posted on 6/27/13 at 3:48 pm to Jester
Mississippi Kites. They do that a lot.
Posted on 6/27/13 at 3:51 pm to Jester
There is a type of hawk that hunt together...its usually two adult mature birds with there immature full grown offspring
Posted on 6/27/13 at 3:52 pm to TigerStripes30
I think I've seen shows on Harris' hawks doing that. Where's Teague?
Posted on 6/27/13 at 4:19 pm to AlxTgr
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Mississippi Kites. They do that a lot.
Pretty sure that's it. Really cool sight to see. At first it looked like a bunch of oversized swallows feeding.
Posted on 6/27/13 at 4:48 pm to Jester
Once I was mowing the back couple acres and 3 or 4 Mississippi Kites landed at the top of 2 hackberry trees at the edge of the field. As I was mowing these green grasshopper looking things would fly up in front of the tractor and glide about 20 ft into the uncut grass. Then these Kites started swooping down and nailing them right in front of my tractor. This went on for about 45 min. It was a great mowing experience and the Kites must have been stuffed.
Posted on 6/27/13 at 5:09 pm to Jester
ive seen 20 swallow tailed kites over my house in kingwood, tx b4. they r a badass looking bird.
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