I just know it as (or would guess at) Mountain Ash - I hadn't realised there was an American species with the same name. Very common over here, and birds are fond of the berries when ripe. Also called a Rowan, but that's not the name I use.

Oh wow, I didn't see the second one at first, the composition of the two of them together is gorgeous. I bet it would make a lovely painting.

Edit: out of curiosity do you know what kind of tree it is? It looks vaguely like an American Mountain Ash, but yet different... Is there a UK Mountain Ash?

Thank you, though as much luck as anything else, I suspect!

Fantastic picture and composition

La gazza ladra

I hadn't heard of this, so I read the synopsis. People really took flatware seriously back in the day! 😯

Sadly they never listen to "Could you turn a little bit more this way, please?"

A Yakuza Magpie, perhaps? It would fit with La gazza ladra :)

Nice shot, kind of him to pose

Awww, little guy lost a claw somewhere along the line...

Not a BirdNet-Pi user here and own 0 technical knowledge, but these GitHub discussions (#1, #2) seem to point at only one mic per RPi because the input on most USB audio sound cards is MONO. Looks like using a splitter function might technically work but could take a toll on the battery/processor or something. I think it might be better to set up 2 different BirdNet-Pis in your case. I'm sure you've looked into these already, but I tried to do my own research out of curiosity.

It's been too long since I've seen a kestrel even this well, so I was likewise pleased :)

Sharing a rad raptor always gets an upvote from me!

I mean birds must have free will too, don't they?

Always satisfying to see progress like this, it couldn't be clearer.

That's a gorgeous picture all things considered. Beautiful bird.

Those eyes... Looks as caffeinated as I wish I was.

I hear they grow out of that stalking phase as they mature. I used to have one bombing my feeders for a bit, and then it got better at hunting I guess, and didn't need to wait for those social gatherings to occur to grab some easy pickings.

I need to learn more about hawks. At least the ones in my state, especially the RTH and Coopers...

I wonder if cat actually eat carcasses. If not, it would require infecting birds with some virus that makes cat get an upset stomach when they eat birds.

That was my assessment as well.

At some point all of myself, this bird, and my actual camera are finally going to intersect and I'll be able to get a half decent picture of it. For reasons completely unknown to all of us my neighbor's roof apparently hosts the social club for every pigeon in the county on a daily basis, so this hawk seems to be habitually hanging around our neighborhood thinking about lunch. We've seen it on poles, on the tips of trees, and in this case literally on our house. Just always when I'm not in a position to do anything about it.

One more and you'll have an attempted murder.

Big tail barring looks to be Coopers.

Red-tailed has thinner barring.

A little tough to tell without scale, but juvenile Coop sounds right. Red-tailed are a good deal bigger and bulkier. Your note on behaviour is right on the money, too.

I'm a fan of that tail

Thanks.

The marching penguins thing is my hedge against getting famous and having all of my images stolen and republished in e.g. some magazine or blog or other. Thus far the fame thing hasn't quite materialized yet, but a bird can dream.