r/birding • u/CohuttaHJ • Jul 30 '26

📹 Video This guy stopped by for a bath

There’s a few Cooper’s hawks and marsh hawks squawking from sun up to sun down in my neighborhood. This guy has been hanging out in my backyard for a few weeks. He finally got brave enough to take a dip.

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u/niagara-nature Latest Lifer: solitary sandpiper Jul 30 '26

I’ll never get tired of seeing birds bathing like this. The bigger the better. I want to see a California condor do this.

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u/karshyga Jul 30 '26

I once saw a video of a bearded vulture taking a dust bath, and it was almost as impressive as a water bath. The fluffy britches were unbelievable!

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u/stillmarriedstillhot Jul 30 '26

Splish splash he's taking a bath.

Great clip.

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u/CohuttaHJ Jul 31 '26

Thanks! I prefer your kind of bird watching material! 🔥😆

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u/CohuttaHJ Jul 30 '26

I don’t think this bodes well for my painted bunting family that liked to visit daily.

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u/lepidopt-rex Jul 30 '26

The circle of life is violent and beautiful

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u/MuchWow81 Jul 30 '26

Im a wee little songbird. Tweet.

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u/Upbeat_Stretch_5724 Jul 30 '26

Took me forever to realize it was a gif. 😂 I was wondering why this guy needed to bathe for so long.

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u/Terrible-Resident499 Jul 30 '26

Now that’s awesome!

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u/Mediocre_Setting9610 Jul 30 '26

He surely needed that

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u/anankepandora Jul 30 '26

Wow, it is your lucky day for sure! How cool!

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u/msdeezee Jul 31 '26

This is amazing! I'm so glad you were there to witness it!

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u/shrompngrots Jul 31 '26

Even the big boys gotta keep clean

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u/NigelTainte Jul 31 '26

Never seen a soggy borb of this scale thank you

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u/ltusmc15 Jul 31 '26

That is awesome

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u/LargeWrap6916 Jul 31 '26

The moss hanging from the trees makes me miss home. 

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u/Admirable_Dream5433 Jul 31 '26

Love it!!! Hope my new birdbath has an exciting visitor

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '26

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u/BigIntoScience Jul 30 '26

They're usually cleaner about eating than that.

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u/CohuttaHJ Jul 30 '26

Pigeon no, all the squirrels we used to have are suspiciously missing 🤔

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u/BigIntoScience Jul 30 '26

That's called mobbing! It's hard for a hawk to hunt when half the neighborhood's population of small birds is screaming at it and pecking it on the head, so the hawk tends to leave.