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Hawk in Cambridgeport

How'd you like to walk out your door Sunday morning and be greeted by this fine specimen? Molly Hester spotted the bird on a Cambridgeport front porch this morning.

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Never seen a brown pigeon before

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You probably will see fewer pigeons of any sort in this neighborhood if this one stays. That looks like a juvenile red tail hawk. Large size = female.

Cambridgeport you say? Fewer drones, too.

IMAGE(http://ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/Hawk_Red-Tailed_adult14.jpg)

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Low-perching and low-flying is more likely to be a marsh hawk. I've seen plenty of them around the Fenway. They attack on a low glide. One took a squirrel right in front of me on Queensberry Street once, then sat on it and gave me a look like, "You want some?"

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I know you were making a joke, but there actually are brown pigeons. I have seen them on occasion. They tend to be light brown, with some white. They're not too common.

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painted brown pigeons.

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This bird, however, didn't look like a pigeon. He looked like a young hawk of some sort of other.

He's so cute, though!

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the guest from last night's party who lost his cell phone and dropped by as soon as he woke up, hoping he'd left it there.

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And they really do seem to be everywhere, these days. Yay, nature!

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Sometimes i hear screeching and look up and see 3 or 4 of hawk looking things circling around

One time i was mowing the lawn and saw a shadow approach me from behind and a hawk swooped right above my head..guess i looked tasty. Or he wanted my beer.

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I had an incident on the Muddy River path where I saw a squirrel cross the path about 50 yards ahead and immediately got WHOOOSHED by a hawk that came so close that I had a feather in my helmet!

It took a couple of seconds to get the bike back under control, but, whoh. The squirrel did not fare so very well.

A friend who does wildlife rehab told me that it isn't uncommon for a hawk to lock in on a target and run into something that moves into the way or that they didn't account for - like a panel truck or, in my case, a cyclist. Once they go for it, they can't stop.

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I have heard that its not uncommon for bald eagles to die in their pursuit of dinner because they refuse to give up.

I figure thats why they are our national symbol

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That is, they wait until someone else has gotten the prey, then try to steal it. I've actually seen this happen. An osprey caught a fish, then we saw an eagle launch from his tree towards the osprey. He chased for awhile and gave up.

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I follow hawks a lot but have never seen one take anything. That must have been one of those "What just happened?" moments. Very cool.

I had friends who were golfing, hanging around a tee watching a rabbit only 10 feet away. They never saw the hawk that swooped right between two of the guys and took the rabbit.

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Usually when I hear a lot of noise, it's usually crows who are trying to get the hawk to go away. They gang up on a hawk and get him to leave their territory. I suspect squirrels know to hide when they hear the crows.

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If you see a bunch of them circling - that's what they most likely are. Hawks/Eagles tend to be more solitary. I see turkey vultures in large groups all the time in Florida when I go down over the winter - have noticed a lot of them up here in the summer in the last year or two.

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