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10/02/2011 12:07:27 PM · #1 |
I didn't get any hummingbirds to visit this summer, but we just had a very interesting visitor...never saw one in my backyard before!
Just grabbed my LX5 and went to our sunroom...this is through the glass of course...he was only 15 feet away and I was afraid I'd scare him off...
What type of hawk is this?
While I'm at it, last month I had a different kind of "visitor"...never saw one of these in my backyard either...he made a new home there, but unfortunately, it was right across the path to my pool shed...I avoided it as long as I could, but sooner or later, I ended up walking "through" his web.
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10/02/2011 12:13:19 PM · #2 |
It's likely a Cooper's Hawk or a Sharp Shinned Hawk, I think. They are very hard to tell apart.
R.
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10/02/2011 12:15:05 PM · #3 |
| Looks like a Red Shouldered Hawk. We have a pair that nest in the trees behind our house every year. |
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10/02/2011 12:31:16 PM · #4 |
| From the looks of the breast and head, it may be a Red-Tailed Hawk. |
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10/02/2011 12:33:03 PM · #5 |
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10/02/2011 12:59:05 PM · #6 |
Looked those up...looks like a Coopers Hawk like Bear said....
Here's one of the examples:
//www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/PHOTO/LARGE/coopers_hawk_2.jpg
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10/02/2011 01:24:47 PM · #7 |
| I stand corrected; my husband said it is a Red Tailed Hawk. Cooper's Hawk is a more slender bird. |
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10/02/2011 03:30:04 PM · #8 |
The tail shape is wrong for a Cooper's or Sharp-shin, and he looks too thick breasted. It's tough to see the tail, but I'm not seeing any of the distinctive tail banding either. If I were a betting gal I'd say immature Red-tail. It's not terribly common to see a Red-tail in a yard (unlike say a Sharp-shin), but it's possible he's started migrating already, was pooped, and looking for an easy meal. You live far enough north, so that could very well be the case.
(Eee, my first post in over a month! Figures the birds would bring me back out. I just can't let a good bird debate go by.) |
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10/02/2011 03:55:14 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by aliqui:
...it's possible he's started migrating already, was pooped, and looking for an easy meal. You live far enough north, so that could very well be the case. |
Indeed that's the case; it's a very impressive migratory season thus far on the Atlantic Flyway, and the hawks and falcons are taking great advantage of it, gobbling little birds right and left.
R.
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10/02/2011 08:05:00 PM · #10 |
Ok, so you can see his backside, I uploaded two others showing him leaving...
So what is he? And why did he moon me!
Message edited by author 2011-10-02 20:05:21. |
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10/02/2011 08:12:11 PM · #11 |
| As I recall Cooper's Hawks have longitudinal (front-to-back) light and dark stripes on the undersides of the wings. Even I can see that the tail feathers are not red ... :-( |
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10/02/2011 08:21:13 PM · #12 |
I would say it might be a red shouldered hawk. Your hawk has a lighter breast however. Might be a juvenile? They look a lot like a Red Tail but they have tail feathers that don't fan out as far and their tail feathers are more brownish than red. They are also slightly smaller than a Red Tail. I am posting two shots I took yesterday of a Red Shouldered Hawk .. I have dozens of Red Tails but they are quite different once you see them a lot.
 He's trying to make me go away.
 Just a tail
edited because I cannot spell :(
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10/02/2011 08:41:50 PM · #13 |
I'm still thinking juvenile Red Tailed who have barred tails until they molt in their 2nd year.
National Geo link |
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10/02/2011 09:49:04 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Neil:
Ok, so you can see his backside, I uploaded two others showing him leaving...
So what is he? And why did he moon me!
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Oh, man! you just threw away a perfect pareidolia entry!
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10/02/2011 09:55:44 PM · #15 |
Ask  VAWendy.
I'll bet she knows. =P That woman notices and can name more wildlife than I knew existed when she's out and about..... |
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10/02/2011 09:59:27 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by MacDonald:
... Your hawk has a lighter breast however. Might be a juvenile? ...
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Maybe...in fact the photo link I posted with the hawk that I thought looked similar says that that photo is a coopers hawk juvenile.
So he could be. Well it was kind of juvenile of him to land on my patio furniture anyway... ;)
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