Kyle Hoggan
Overly
Pd. 5
May 20, 2008
The Tail Hawk
The Red Tailed Hawk or Buteo jamaicensis is an amazing animal. It is in the class called Aves. Witch means able to fly. The Hawk will reach sexual maturity within the first three years of its life. When full grown a hawk will weigh between two and four pounds, has a wing span of fifty-six inches and will be twenty-two inches long. They will mate every year in the spring. The female hawk will have between one and three eggs per year. The incubation period is between twenty-eight and thirty- two days. The life span is between ten and twenty-one years.
The food sources of this animal are small rodents and snakes they will also scavange for food. The hawk has no major predators. The red tailed hawk builds it nest in trees. The hawk mostly lives on by its self except when they live with the mom and dad when they are born. Changes made to the environment are it picks up small twigs and branches to build the nest. They also add string and twine that they find. Most of the nests are up more of twenty feet so they are not botherd by people or animal that want to eat the eggs.

wow

May 18,2008
Okay your never going to believe this while taking my observation I first i saw an American Bald Eagle also known as Haliaeetus Ieucocephalus. As i took a closer look i noticed that it had found something to eat. When the Eagle noticed me it flew a few yards over a barbed wired fence. I was still able to observer this amazing animal. While studding the Eagle while it was eating I saw some thing move off in the distance and it was a red fox and it was walking towards a flock of geese. The fox went right through the middle of the flock and the geese didn't move. My first reaction was I thought the geese would flush. Flush means fly away quickly. Also during my observation I noticed that there is a large population of field mice. I'm sure the Eagle never saw the Mice do to the tall grass they can hide in. This is a huge survival need for them.

may 19th

May 19

A Gloomy Day

May-20-2008
This Morning I woke up early to do my observation to see if i could see any thing amazing, because most animals are moving around early in the morning. I didn't see any animals. So I had to observe all the other things that i could. Over the night the aspen tree in my yard budded like crazy from the rain. Even the grass changed it was so much greener than usual. The rain made the most dramatic change in one night than i have seen. I was in awe when I had seen what the rain had done

May 9th

May 9th

Time was 6:42 Am

WEATHER

Coludy

Wet-Do to the rain from the night

Temp was 36

A slight brease was blowing witch made it more missirable than it should have been. I could tell that a storm was coming in. Animal life was slim and not much was going on do to this weather. On a brighter note the grass was starting to greener. Now its more than a light tan. It was kind of an erie morning do to the cloud cover in the sky.

May 5th

Clear sky’s about 50 degrees
Animals seen to day
1)2: geese (Pranta Canadensis)
2)1: magpie( Disambiguation) or (Pica Hudsonia)
3)An abundance of field Mice (searching for the name at the moment )
4)Countless little fish (don’t know the type)

5)Roben(bird)
Animals I have seen in the past
1)Moose (Erethizon Dorsatum)
2)Cross Fox- Red Fox(Vulpes vulpes)
3)Trupiter Swans (Cygnus buccinator )
4)Mallard Ducks(Anas Platyrhynchos )
5)Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
6)Some type of Toad

7)Gardner snakes
8)Coyote (Jokis Callbackus)
About the aria (Back Yard) large no fence with a ditch that flows along the back. And a pasture be hind that. Along the ditch there is tall long grass. Witch is a great Habitat for the Field Mice (voles). Even though the ditch is only a few inches deep there is fish living their. As time is going on i am going to predict that I will end-up seeing more types of birds and small criters running aroud. While taking my observation I heard frogs croking all arond I hope I can see one so I can tell you what type.