BN is correct, ..they should be coming here soon and will do allot of damage or kill trees. Here a male drinking sap after inflicting wounds/holes on one of several of my seedling Colorado spruce tree. Click on, [video] Put up audio all the way. Mom with offspring visiting one of several seedling birch tree. .. They eat the Oriole jelly, guess better then my trees! Since I planted hundreds of trees, it is a smorgasbord for them, wish they go to the neighbor,...not much to eat there.

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I was going to say oven bird too. Here's something interesting.........I found a dead oven bird on my deck one day. (The only time I've ever seen one, unfortunately). My favorite wildlife artist is Robert Bateman. He had painted a picture of a dead oven bird on the forest floor, and said that many times, they are found dead in the woods, of no apparently injury. The poor guy. (the bird, not Bateman). :)

I see no orange on this bird, either. I thought, first thing, "Crested Caracara," then "Northern Goshawk," based on its overall coloring and the habitat. The habitat seems wrong for a Caracara, but we had one visiting us in redwood country not long ago, eating at several deer carcasses along Highway One and the bird appeared several weeks later (assuming it was the same one) in Oregon. . . While a Northern Goshawk *would* be feathered farther down on the legs, take a closer look at this photo, then turn to page 190 in the NGFG, and check out the feathering on the legs of the Goshawk (imm) in the painting: the feathers are farther down, yes, but they are sweeping back, as in the bird in the photo. A Northern Goshawk *would* go after prey as large as a squirrel. I sincerely doubt a Cooper's would take prey that large. . .