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Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
A Common Buzzard and maybe a Rook.
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Andy Adcock
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Nutcracker
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For completeness, how would one exclude an escaped Red-tailed Hawk?
It appears to lack the dark bar on the leading edge of the wing that is seen in Red-tailed Hawk.
Andy Adcock
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It would be a very odd Red-tail that had a patagial line on the left wing but not the right. I think it is just shadow on the left.
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RichieTwitchy
YNWA
It's really interesting reading what you guys have said and even though I'm a newbie I have a couple of thoughts and observations that I'd like to add to the discussion.
Collage 1 shows Red Tails gained from Google and from what I can see in birdthing's original photo is that the 'bird' seems to have a more deeper shading to the back of the wings whereas the Red Tails seem to have a more definite bar.
On collage 2 looking at the front of the wings there are 2 photos that I took of a Common Buzzard and in the first shot you could say that there's a bar on the front of the left wing, but if you look at a different angle of the same bird then it's simply not there.
And regarding what Andy says about it being a red tail then I guess that could be due to the light/exposure or indeed a red tail so I'd have to leave that with you guys to discuss.
Interesting all the same.
Collage 1 shows Red Tails gained from Google and from what I can see in birdthing's original photo is that the 'bird' seems to have a more deeper shading to the back of the wings whereas the Red Tails seem to have a more definite bar.
On collage 2 looking at the front of the wings there are 2 photos that I took of a Common Buzzard and in the first shot you could say that there's a bar on the front of the left wing, but if you look at a different angle of the same bird then it's simply not there.
And regarding what Andy says about it being a red tail then I guess that could be due to the light/exposure or indeed a red tail so I'd have to leave that with you guys to discuss.
Interesting all the same.
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Andy Adcock
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Whiteish throat and centre breast with streaking below as shown in the collage, OP is a RtH for me
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Andy Adcock
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Generally speaking,
birders won't count escapes as a species seen but it is entirely up to you of course.
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