Looks like a Zone-tailed Hawk. The first photo seems to show some reddish, but the third seems to show a typical Z-t pattern. There have been records in MA and the maritime a in Canada recently.
Yet another would-be basin bird that this out-of-basin will miss. Ryan Bakelaar > On Jun 15, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Ray Zimmerman <r...@cornell.edu> wrote:> > Today > around 12:30pm as I stepped outside (in Eastern Heights, Ithaca) the call of > red-tailed hawk caught my attention and I quickly spotted it circling > overhead. As I grabbed my binoculars, I soon realized that it was a very > unusual red-tail (at least very different from the one’s I’m used to seeing). > As you can see from very bad photos linked below, it was quit dark below.> > > So is this a western bird, or is this just a variation I haven’t seen around > here before?> > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t7pw5hoifjpzeey/AABcyimp4JipHTo8DwZc0r8-a> > — > Ray> > > --> > Cayugabirds-L List Info:> > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > > ARCHIVES:> 1) > http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> 2) > http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> 3) > http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > Please submit your > observations to eBird:> http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > --> -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
