I downloaded the pictures I took yesterday to my PC and after close examination the bird that I saw was not a Ferruginous hawk but was instead an immature red-tail. It was very difficult to tell even from the pictures but in the end I was able to see that the feathers went only about half way down the leg and not all the way to the foot like they would on a Ferruginous. The bird does have some color on the belly but it does not appear as a belly band and the tail has little to no red in it which is why I believe that it must be an immature. I will get the pics up on my site as soon as I can but I still have a couple of posts from last weekend and the beginning of the week and with the nice weather I will most likely be out shooting so they may not be up until Monday. Sorry for any confusion.
Thanks, Jeff Fischer http://ecobirder.blogspot.com/ ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: jeff fischer <[email protected]> To: mou-net at moumn.org; mnbird at lists.mnbird.net Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:30:23 PM Subject: [mou] Ferruginous I spotted what I believe is a light morph Ferruginous Hawk at Wisconsin point this after noon. It was in the marshy area on the side of the road to the beach. I have several pictures and it has an all white breast, feathered feat, and white crescent shape patches on the top of the wings. This is most likely a migrating bird since their typical habitat is an arid, dry climate. After taking a few pictures another car came and I had to move. As I parked ion the side of the road the bird took off, I got a shot as he was leaving, and flew further from the road. I then went and checked out the beach. I looked for him on my way out but I was not able to find him. I will post pictures up on my blog when I get them off the camera and processed. If anyone knows the address to a Wisconsin list server you may want to forward this message. Thanks, Jeff Fischer http://ecobirder.blogspot.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20071026/20d52d7e/attachment.html
