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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #15 on: May 13, 2009, 12:03:20 PM »
Tricky, see I've recently discovered that at least some of the hawks I've seen are vultuers or in fact big freakin' crows . . . don't ask.

Anyway whenever I see a hawk I have to really look close to be certain that it is a hawk, then its usualy a crow or a vulture, but the relevant point is that while I'm looking closer I always immediately think of Tobias, or I wouldn't care enough to take that closer look anymore. Hawks are cool and seeing one is cool but being mistaken so often tends to kill one's enthusiasm . . . not that crows and vultures aren' cool . . . I geuss.
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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #16 on: May 13, 2009, 01:24:10 PM »
when i see a bird i go yay animorphs rules

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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #17 on: May 16, 2009, 07:12:07 PM »
when i see a bird i go yay animorphs rules

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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #18 on: May 17, 2009, 03:06:11 AM »
there are hawks everywhere here. there are 3 for sure that have each staked out different sections of freeway that i take to and from school from my house, and they just sit on the lamp posts lookin out over the freeway. and i always think Tobias when i see them :P

the other day i saw an offsprey pair (it was super exciting cuz it was the first time i'd ever seen an osprey in real life that wasnt a stuffed specimen) and i thought look! cassie and marco! :P and one was being a pacifist and not hunting (cassie) and the other tried 3 times to hunt, and came up empty 3 times (marco) :P
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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #19 on: May 17, 2009, 10:22:09 PM »
There are tons of red-tails down our trail near my house... Whenever I go running I always run into a couple of them. <3
There're also a bunch of Osprey here, especially nearer to the bay/rivers... last time a friend of mine went fishing, I just sat there and watched them. xD Aside from them, there're a bunch of vultures, some Goshawks, Kestrels and a few other species... but I'm drawn to the red-tails, mostly because of Tobias. =P

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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2009, 11:19:31 PM »
i am so jealous! where are you that there are that many different birds of prey? :o
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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2009, 06:58:16 PM »
I used to do some birdwatching I was an amateur 
but i could tell different hawks apart
there were several around  my area and the one near my house was a Red Tail so I used to say it was Tobias heh
good old days. there was a female with babies in the park bit it was a kestrel not a red tail.
I totally lost my bird calling skills i could do a hawk quite well. not anymore

What got me upset about the show was ...
IF RED TAILS ARE SO COMMON
WHY NOT USE ONE
they used a Red Shoulder Hawk

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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #22 on: May 19, 2009, 07:03:06 PM »
was it a red shoulder hawk? it looked way to dark to be a red shoulder :-\
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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #23 on: May 19, 2009, 10:37:38 PM »
ive got hawks nesting in my backyard, its pretty cool to see them during the summer, whos knows where they go once the season changes

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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #24 on: May 19, 2009, 10:50:01 PM »
i am so jealous of u ax! all i get are songbirds. altho the other day i saw a mocking bird, so i guess thats kinda cool.
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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #25 on: May 20, 2009, 02:23:00 AM »
was it a red shoulder hawk? it looked way to dark to be a red shoulder :-\

i thought it was to dark to be a red tail . plus its shoulders were maroon colored
but yeah now that i think about it..red shoulders are lighter than red tails.
so going to figure this out before my head explodes


Swainson's hawk is darker than a red tail and has the maroon shoulders
i'll find some pictures to compare

[spoiler][/spoiler] Swainson's hawk

[spoiler][/spoiler] Red Tail hawk

[spoiler][/spoiler] Red Shouldered

and i am looking for a pic of the hawk in the show but i found a tiny clip
http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/characters/behind_tobias.htm

it shows the bird a  little

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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #26 on: May 20, 2009, 03:11:41 AM »
I was walking with my friend Natalya (my only friend who has read most of the Animorphs) and I was telling her my new Animorph quote
<Yesss! Yesss! Bird Boy shoots, he scores! If I had arms I'd be doing a victory dance!> :woot2:
Anyway then Natalya points to a sparrow going past and says "Look! It's Tobias!" and we laughed and I said "Wouldn't it be funny if he started doing a victory dance?" and we laughed some more.

Plus this is kind of irrelevant but a little huntsman has taken up residence in our classroom and I called him Marco. It's not a wolf spider, but hey...
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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #27 on: May 20, 2009, 01:05:23 PM »
haha a sparrow. do you know how insulted tobias would be? :P


and shark, he def was not a red tailed in the novie, that was obvious from the start, to small and dark, but he could have been a swainson's even tho that one in ur pick isnt dark enough, cuz they have different color morphs. oh why did i already return my bird field guide book back to the library?
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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #28 on: May 20, 2009, 01:52:07 PM »
XD  THAT IS my problem too.
totally lost my raptor sighting skills XD.
don't have my field book with me either  or my tree one yes a tree field guide book to identify different trees... <_< lost my skill of that too

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Re: What ever happened to Tobias?
« Reply #29 on: June 08, 2009, 04:40:05 PM »
I had a total Tobias moment yesterday, on the way to my cousin's b-day party. I saw a hawk being mobbed by smaller black birds, either crows or starlings. Wish I could have get rid of them some way lol

Red tails do have a dark morph. Look at this pic. It's called Harlan's Hawk.

http://i.pbase.com/o6/32/739432/1/72827166.vwoXyNly.IMG_0566HarlansHawk.jpg
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