Thanks Steve (and others) for the explanation, and also for the motivation to go get a closer look at this beautiful hawk!! If I can find a better vantage point than the Hwy 100 on ramp, I'll try to get some more photos.
> Hi Liz, > > these are excellent photos of a spectacular hawk. The warm brown > coloration, rufous dorsal color of the tail, and rufous upper chest rule > out > a Harlan Hawk. Note the long wings, which are typical of a western > red-tail, and not of our eastern sub-species. The tail coloration is > intriguing. The deep rufous dorsal tail coloration suggests that this is > an > adult, but the white ventral tail coloration....? I am not familiar with > this. Is this a rufous morph? > > Steve Weston > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Liz Stanley" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 12:22 PM > Subject: Re: [mou-net] [mnbird] Birding about the metro > > >>I drive Hwy 100 every day and have often noticed this dark hawk that >> Steve >> mentioned, so today I finally went out to try and get some photos. I had >> to briefly pull over on the on ramp to 100 SB so could only get off a >> few >> shots, but hopefully these are good enough to identify if it's a >> Harlan's >> hawk. >> >> http://www.pbase.com/gymell/image/131564005 >> http://www.pbase.com/gymell/image/131564009 >> http://www.pbase.com/gymell/image/131564024 >> http://www.pbase.com/gymell/image/131564075 >> >> >>> In between birding every available hour of daylight, I have been >>> working, >>> driving around the Metro. The one bird I have been noticing is our >>> highway sentinels: the Red-tailed Hawks. Several of our winter hawks >>> are >>> much darker than expected. One bird at Highway 100 and 77th in Edina, >>> I >>> had to double back for a second look. I thought I had found a >>> Rough-legged, but it was a dark morph Red-tail. >>> >>> >>> Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN >>> [email protected] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mnbird mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird >>> Unsubscribe: %(user_optionsurl)s >>> >> >> >> -- >> Liz Stanley >> Bloomington, MN >> [email protected] >> Backyard weather and feedercam: http://www.overlookcircle.org/ >> Photo gallery: http://www.pbase.com/gymell/liz_favorites >> Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lizmstanley >> >> ---- >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >> > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Liz Stanley Bloomington, MN [email protected] Backyard weather and feedercam: http://www.overlookcircle.org/ Photo gallery: http://www.pbase.com/gymell/liz_favorites Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lizmstanley ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
