red-tailed hawk

Juvenile

OK. I admit it. I'm a Monty Python fan. Yeah, it's a pretty juvenile quote and a juvenile photo moment to be posting, but this is a juvenile red-tailed, after all. ;)

Rain or shine, keep looking.

Yesterday, after I took these three pictures, the San Francisco Giants were the first team to shut out (i.e. keep at 0 home runs) the Rangers on their home field. Today the Giants won again and are the first team in San Francisco to win the "World Series" (which is not a world cup, but...

I'm sure I've seen pretty much all the hawks in this part of the state at one time or another, growing up in the countryside here - red-shouldered, red-tailed, Swainson's, Ferruginous, rough-legged, sharp-shinned, Cooper's, Northern goshawk, Northern harrier ... BUT, back then I couldn't tell...

I hit the brakes, pulled off the road, and took some shots of this "bad boy" in the rain. Who says that you cannot bird in bad weather? By the way, "Spiker" here is a part of the notorious Buteo gang; one bad dude! He's "lookin' out for the little guy", and not...

I think it's thinking "OK I know you don't like my perch but I'm staying the night anyway" - another window mount job.

Photographed in our garden in Green Valley, AZ

This RTH flew at me and then turned around. I only got one image in focus (this one). It is uncropped image.

This red-tailed hawk was on the hunt sitting on a high positioned lookout, so he could see the farmland all around. Taken in South Richmond, near south arm of Fraser River.

Took this in Richmond BC. on farm road, near papermill plant in 2009.

This young Red-tailed Hawk was waiting patiently while his parent ate a Gray Squirrel on a nearby limb. I see Red-shouldered Hawks at home more frequently than Red-tailed, perhaps because the Red-taileds are noisier and let me know when they are around. The two species seem to overlap to a...

Ran across this fellow sitting on a snow fence just off NYS Thruway in Coxsackie, NY. He was showing his namesake tail very well.

During courtship, Red-tailed Hawks will display ritual manuevers, such as: synchronous motions, sharp dives followed by virtical elevatons, the dangling of the legs (shown), talon clasping, talon clasping and spiroling downward. The last phenomena I've seen, it is spectacular though at the same...

I think it is a Juvenile as ponted out by my friend.

"One man's loss is another man's gain". On a clear, crisp, cool mid-day in January the fortunes of three birds were descided. A coopers hawk had taken a California quail; the quail paid the ultimate price of not being ever vigilant. The quail is supper. But the Coopers hawk would not...

This took place on a cold January Morning near Lake Tyler, TX. From Upper left to lower right, here's the story. I spotted this Red-tailed Hawk being attacked by Crows. I thought at first he was injured and the Crows were trying to finish him off. That's what it looks like in the upper two...

I think that we should start a petition to rename this bird an Orange-tailed Hawk or at least a Rust-tailed hawk.