ID this hawk? Southeast TN USA (1 Viewer)

[lwood114]

Hi,
I am wondering if someone could ID this hawk? (I assume hawk?)
Not a great picture but maybe?
Thanks!

 

[Sinaloa]

maybe you could throw out some other details for us to work with alongside the pic. How was the bird acting? Was it soaring or actively flapping? Did you snap off any more shots?

 

[KenM]

Think you'll need to crop the image!...so that we can see more detail.

cheers

 

[fugl]

I doubt if cropping would do much good with an image size that small. I don’t think the hawk’s identifiable from this photo.

 

[KenM]

I suppose it could be a chattanooga-who-who?

 

[MJB]

Hi, I am wondering if someone could ID this hawk? (I assume hawk?). Not a great picture but maybe? Thanks!

The image is of the proportions of Short-tailed Hawk; there are ample images available on the Web of the general aspect shown in your picture, but it would be way out of its limited US range!
MJB

 

[lwood114]

Hi,
The small birds and squirrels ran, scared when it flew over the house. Shortly after it flew over the house 2 turkey vultures flew over. It didn't flap its wings much, mostly just soared. Totally scared all the small animals off my back deck. I never heard any sounds. I got several shots of it but I think this one is the best sadly. It was so far away up in the sky by the time I got out there to get its picture. I cropped the picture more hoping you can see it more closely. It seems to have a lighter color body and darker head and tail. Thanks for trying to ID.
Laurie

 

[ceasar]

Red-tailed Hawk would be the default raptor here and it's possibility should be eliminated first. Could this real short tail be a photographic artifact? Can the wings be lightened? Maybe we could see if there are patagial bars?
Bob

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Red-tailed Hawk would be the default raptor here and it's possibility should be eliminated first. Could this real short tail be a photographic artifact? Can the wings be lightened? Maybe we could see if there are patagial bars?
Bob

No sign of a belly band. And the wing shape looked very pointy in the original view. I was leaning red-shouldered until I noticed that stubby tail. That put me at short-tailed, or a photographic effect making the tail of a red-shouldered look short (which would be a trick).