Hawk ID. (1 Viewer)

-25

Bird and squirrel lover.

• Jan 17, 2006

• #1

Snapped a couple shots just now of a hawk watching my feeders. The hawk is sitting on a neighbors wood pile which is exactly where my House Sparrow Roost hang out when they aren't eating my bird feed.

Central Nebraska

I am guessing Red Tailed Hawk.

 

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lockbreeze926

Well-known member

• Jan 17, 2006

• #2

I'd say it was a sharp-shinned hawk. The squared-off tail (with narrow white terminal band in one of the shots) strongly suggests that.

More specifically......the brown colouring (and the white spotting) suggests juvenile, size (although hard to judge) would make it female, but square, almost-notchy tail would make it male.

 

-25

Bird and squirrel lover.

• Jan 17, 2006

• #3

Awesome, I was socked to this fella, its the second time I have spotted which is odd as I live in the center of town but anyways , I accidentally had picture 1 and 3 the same, I corrected the issue and #3 is now different.

Thanks for the knowledge.

 

AlexC

Aves en Los Ángeles

Opus Editor

• Jan 17, 2006

• #4

Nice shots! Two more tip-offs to it being a Sharpie (rather than a Coops) are the smaller beak and the rounded (not square) head shape.

 

Katy Penland

Well-known member

• Jan 17, 2006

• #5

Yes, agree with Sharp-shinned. That long tail and small size would have ruled out Red-tailed, which is almost twice the size of a Sharpie. Hard to tell, sometimes, with no other birds around for comparison.