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A Red-Shouldered Hawk in East Lake Park

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It was a gray, winter day, but some birds were out by the lake in East Lake Park lake in East Birmingham. This is a red-shouldered hawk (buteo lineatus) fishing on Jan. 24. We were able to get pretty close and watch it dive, catch and eat a small fish. We also saw a kingfisher, a yellow-crowed night heron, a bunch of ducks and geese, and one major goose fight...

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I am a birder from hueytown, and would love to know more about what you are doing. I used to live in Locust Fork. Saw alot of birds there: a scarlet tangier, way up top of a pine. Beautiful...

Funny, I have a cousin named Greg Love somewhere. Some family from St. Clair County, where the Love's were part Cherokee.

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