Cypress Creek Swallow Tail Kite? (1 Viewer)

[Kukiniloa]

Sorry, this pic is the best I could do. No binocs either, but the markings are distinctive, and the white breast rules out some other familiar birds. No, I didn't see it fly because I didn't want to disturb it.

 

[Butty]

Welcome to BF.
Could you give the location of the location and the date, please? Thanks.
My first guess would be osprey.

 

[THE_FERN]

Osprey

 

[Kukiniloa]

Welcome to BF.
Could you give the location of the location and the date, please? Thanks.
My first guess would be osprey.

I know, but the breast is completely white.

 

[Butty]

the breast is completely white

It looks completely white, but that's very different from being completely white. In a photo of this low quality (no offence) I would be unsurprised if an osprey's (variable and sometimes minimal) chest-band disappeared.
Could you give the location of the location, and the date, please? Thanks.

 

[_pauls]

Difficult picture - wouldn't be that surprised if it was a swallow-tailed kite rather than osprey but I don't think its possible to be confident from that photo.

 

[nartreb]

There's something dark in the photo roughly where the head should be, which seems to suggest the head markings of an osprey... but it might be a shadow?

North American ospreys have fainter neck-bands than, say Australian ones; a completely white breast is not that unusual. Also, there's a Caribbean race of osprey with especially white heads (very faint dark markings on the head). Caribbean osprey are non-migratory, but the migratory subspecies Caroliniensis can and does interbreed with them as its breeding range has been expanding southward.

 

[THE_FERN]

Difficult picture - wouldn't be that surprised if it was a swallow-tailed kite rather than osprey but I don't think its possible to be confident from that photo.

(I'd be very surprised if it were. It has nothing of the jizz of the kite for me)