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Rare bird siting in the top right corner yesterday
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09/06/20 08:15 PM
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Had a Swallow-Tailed Kite cruse over the dove field yesterday . Several of us saw it and had never seen anything even close to it . Research says that's what it was , no way to mistake one either. Would be very rare to see one this far north. Beautiful bird. Probably what's more amazing is one of these hillbillies didn't blow it out of the sky! Any of you LA boys see them?
"Why do you ask"?
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Re: Rare bird siting in the top right corner yesterday
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09/06/20 08:36 PM
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We have them here in South Florida.
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Re: Rare bird siting in the top right corner yesterday
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In a Van, down by the River
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I see them from time to time down here.
Taste like Chicken, by the way...
Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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Re: Rare bird siting in the top right corner yesterday
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Right Bunny, in my research it said they love to hunt fresh cut hay fields and stay near swamps and river bottoms. We were in a cut hay field near river bottoms.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: Rare bird siting in the top right corner yesterday
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Pile of them at a buddies place in perry cnty. See 5-7 every afternoon over his field
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: Rare bird siting in the top right corner yesterday
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Swallowtail and Mississippi kites like to hunt bugs and other stuff while I am cutting hay. They are absolutely amazing to watch. They will dive so close to the tractor that I am just waiting on the day one impales itself on the hay spear. Happens to me a lot. I enjoy watching them
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Re: Rare bird siting in the top right corner yesterday
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I used to do swallow-tailed kite surveys on the Pascagoula and Escatawpa rivers in south MS. Supposedly one of the largest breeding populations is down there. I have seen a total of two outside of south MS. Both were in Fayette county around fresh cut hay fields.
Anthony, to see one in Jackson county is a rare sight indeed!! Right place at the right time, local taxidermist Stan Gross also saw it . I figured if anyone in the field knew what it was he would, but he was stumped also.
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Re: Rare bird siting in the top right corner yesterday
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I don't remember ever seeing one of those, that was cool! I have seen birds that we called kites that had a square tail, but I couldn't tell you the species. It seems to me that there are more of them in the Blackbelt than there was when I was growing up back in the 60s. I don't remember ever seeing one back then, and as Wiley mentioned, any large bird that flew over a 1960s dove shoot was pretty much doomed.
Maybe they are making a comeback. Not everything is dying out. I believe there are more Great Blue Herons today than there were when Desoto passed through.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Rare bird siting in the top right corner yesterday
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Maybe it's a Mississippi kite that fly around me when bush hogging. The birds I see don't have the pointed tails like the one described above Nope , not the Ol' Miss version , what we saw was snow white underneath with dark edges and a long forked tail. Looked just like the video above. No other bird I could find even looks close in the combination of size , color and forked tail .
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Re: Rare bird siting in the top right corner yesterday
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Maybe it's a Mississippi kite that fly around me when bush hogging. The birds I see don't have the pointed tails like the one described above Nope , not the Ol' Miss version , what we saw was snow white underneath with dark edges and a long forked tail. Looked just like the video above. No other bird I could find even looks close in the combination of size , color and forked tail . Sorry, I meant the ones I see in Talllassee.
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