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Published: 2010-01-23 03:43:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 4900; Favourites: 250; Downloads: 124
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The second 'part' to a set of paintings I was inspired to create based on a quote -"Goshawks are water. Falcons are air and hot stone. Goshawks are water and wood." -- Helen Macdonald
This is the goshawk, water and wood. Northern Goshawks are rather intense creatures, and yes, the eyes of the adults really are deep red.
Watercolor on cold-press Arches paper, about 9X12 inches
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Beautiful, and the pine needles look really good.
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It's a Goshawk! Excellent job! These birds are beautiful anyway, but I like the color scheme.
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Beautiful hawk and beautiful art!
The atmosphere fits really well with the accipiter, the intense gaze waiting for the next unfortunate creature to come into range. I love it!
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awww that is really great!! all the details added!! espacially that white stripe over the eye!! soso an adult...
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splendid lifelike subtle coloration. great pose and environment.
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Wow... The composition of your works is also GREAT.
I won't even mention the colours.
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Wow, beautiful... the tree and the goshawk go together really well. <3
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Such a beautiful bird 
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Pretty bird. I haven't seen one before.
Greylight S.
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Ofcourse the bird is beautiful like always but I really like how you did the tree in this one.
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Thank you
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I like it that you base your painting on a quote. And... I really like your painting too!
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Thank you! 
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The whole composition and the colors you've used here are gorgeous.
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Thank you very much!
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This is just as stunning, perhaps even more so, than I expected!
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Thank you
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You're extremely welcome! ^^
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I've always wondered, is it pronounced goss-hawk or gosh-hawk?
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It's pronounced "goss-hawk," with 'gos' meaning 'goose.' The name means, essentially, 'goose hawk'.
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Aaaaaahh. Ok, that makes sense. thank you!
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Intense isn't quite the word. Psychopathic, is what falconers and rehabilitation volunteers describe them as. The stories they told about Goshawks...
But my, what magnificent birds when you spot one in a bare tree in the cold of winter.
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Ah, I've read some impressive stories about them attacking hikers who venture too close to their nests.
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Oh, yes. The impressive thing is that they team-attack. One notable story involved a bander that was trying to band Goshawk nestlings. The female swooped and screamed and dove, the usual. His attention, of course, was drawn to her, and only luck and extreme reflexes saved him from the sneak attack by the MALE. Who was going straight for his eyes.
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Ah! Oh those vicious accipiters <3 Speed, strength, beauty AND brains. I remember hearing about a sharp-shin in the museum I volunteered in going for the curator's eyes when she opened the enclosure. She had a puncture right beneath her eye from that vicious little foot. I guess she opened the door, and out flies the hawk talons first.
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I dunno if I'd call it 'brains'. They just are as aggressive as they come when it comes to attacking things that make them mad (which is pretty much everything during breeding season).
They don't do ANYTHING in half measures. The animal that holds the world record for the most recorded copulations per brood/litter is the Northern Goshawk.
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Wow, that's impressive on all fronts.
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Another beautiful work! I love the fold of the wing and how well you painted the tree branches.
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I love goshawks, one of my favourite birds :3 Beautiful work, you do a wonderful job with watercolour!
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Thank you, I love goshawks too.
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