Clean your glasses, definitely barred and definitely Spar.
You don't need glasses to see it's striated. I'm talking about the OP not the other examples.
Clean your glasses, definitely barred and definitely Spar.
The OP is barred.You don't need glasses to see it's striated. I'm talking about the OP not the other examples.
What part of the body is striated in your opinion?You don't need glasses to see it's striated. I'm talking about the OP not the other examples.
Better read my post and look first before you give an answer like this, there are stripes. Click for zoom.The OP photo was taken in mid September. Juvenile goshawks moult their body feathers in spring/summer of their 2nd calendar year, starting in May. By July already they don't show any stripes on the underparts anymore, so you must be seeing things in the (poor) photos that are simply not there.
There is not a single feather with stripes anywhere, just some bold artefact stripesBetter read my post and look first before you give an answer like this, there are stripes. Click for zoom.
Ok, then it's a very well-placed artefact that only appears on the neck and upper breast and stops exactly where the barring begins.There is not a single feather with stripes anywhere, just some bold artefact stripes
There is also barring (or stripes), or blotching at least on the blue sky ...Ok, then it's a very well-placed artefact that only appears on the neck and upper breast and stops exactly where the barring begins.
In all my years of post-processing I never saw something like that. It must be done on purpose (can't imagine that) or it is real, unless someone can explain it.
Keep low guys. There's some confusion going on by a bunch of resurrected threads concerning both Sprawks and Goshawks. The bird in the OP is an adult female Sparrowhawk and shows some streaks on chin like most adult female Sprawks do. In juveniles it can be extended to breast. The question here is if whole underparts are streaked like in a young Gos or not, and the underparts in this bird are clearly barred. 011, again, look at the exact shape of the bars in 2cy autumn Goshawk and compare with the more regular ones in female Sparrowhawk. Many Accipiter pics can be misleading (as we know from Ken's posts) as they adopt different shapes in flight depending on angle and on how strong wings are bent. Not so in the pics in the OP, though.