{"id":1749,"date":"2015-02-21T22:48:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T05:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2015-02-21T22:52:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T05:52:39","slug":"coopers-hawk-vs-sharp-shinned-hawk-february-21-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"Cooper’s Hawk vs. Sharp-shinned Hawk February 21, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

While on the Bell View Trail today in Rancho Santa Margarita with my cohort Mike Sanders, the both of us spotted an Accipiter flying overhead.\u00a0 Mike had his binoculars, I was viewing the Accipiter with a 400mm lens and trying to obtain exposure for the image.\u00a0 Mike declared this was a Cooper’s Hawk.\u00a0 About a minute later what appeared to be the same Accipiter flew back over the ridge and I did note clearly the squared off tail, took a another photo and was confident this was a Sharp-shinned Hawk.\u00a0 What I didn’t realize due to the 3″ screen on the rear of the camera and back lit subjects, we had just seen both:\u00a0 A Cooper’s Hawk adult and Sharp-shinned Hawk immature approximately 1 minute apart.\u00a0 Post processing this evening demystified our sighting today and an updated eBird entry reflecting both Accipiters. Here’s the two images overlapped into a single image that solved the mystery – we were both correct.<\/p>\n

eBird Checklist for 2-21-2015 at Bell View Trail<\/a><\/p>\n

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Both birds seen in exact same location 1 minute and 7 seconds apart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While on the Bell View Trail today in Rancho Santa Margarita with my cohort Mike Sanders, the both of us spotted an Accipiter flying overhead.\u00a0 Mike had his binoculars, I was viewing the Accipiter with a 400mm lens and trying … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oc-birding-locales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rhss-sd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}