I agree with, Godfrey. Am actually surprised to see a hawk in my book identified as a Red-tail that has a tail pictured almost exactly like that in your shot. I've seen a photographed numerous Red Tails, all of which had distinctly obvious red tails. Must be a California version. (??) Is a mystery!
J Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 26, 2018, at 1:28 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > We don’t get many big brawny birds here in the heartland. But today a hawk > landed in a nearby spruce while I was shooting dinky sparrows and chickadees. > Not easy to identify him sitting in a tree, and at first I thought it was > Cooper’s Hawk. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/4o9lnaof9xso1x0/8136.jpg?dl=0 > > But I got one throwaway shot of him in flight, and due to the wing markings > and the broad red tail, I think he’s a red-tailed hawk. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/sdsvezmykexlqmu/8144.jpg?dl=0 > > What say you? > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
