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[Stoshowicz]

Burrowing owlView attachment 163935

 

[Roy1961]

a red tail and a sharp shinned hawk??

 

[wev]

 

[Stoshowicz]

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a red tail and a sharp shinned hawk??

This looks to be an immature red tail, which are rather variable.. but the giant feet should help eliminate sharpies ( the other is the adult )

 

[Roy1961]

Thanks, thought they where different cause of the eye color.

 

[Stoshowicz]

Thanks, thought they where different cause of the eye color.

Well that helps give you a hint, the redtails go from that light golden color to a dark brown .. the sharpies go from a slightly yellower-brown to a rich red eye color. Depending on light and overall pigmentation its easy to get turned around , IMO the sharpies have a surprised facial expression vs most everything else but osprey. And though it sounds like a silly identifier , we humans are really really good at summing up a facial expression ,, so it tends to work very well even vs coopers hawks.

 

[wev]

 

[wev]

Only got one shot, into the sun

 

[Roy1961]

tackling a gopher snake

 

[wev]

 

[wev]

 

[ryan20fun]

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Whats with the film like substance on the eye?

 

[Scott Murray]

Whats with the film like substance on the eye?

Its blinking.

 

[wev]

I spotted this juvenile Cooper's sneaking about in a swamp cedar where a green heron is nesting. I had to massage the image pretty hard, as I was essentially shooting in the dark

 

[10 Gauge]

Osprey from our St. Micahels, MD trip today.

 

[Stoshowicz]

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Same individual owl as earlier , but it looks like he has changed out his feathers. ( orientation is flipped but he still has the little black dot in his left eye)
Of the three young, one two are casualties , don't know about the third.

 

[Kevin H]

Juvi Peregrine Falcon

 

[Roy1961]

i thought this was a young redtail but it looks similar to a coopers hawk???????????????

confused.com lol

edit, has the wrong eye color for a coopers, maybe a young northern goshawk??

Help [MENTION=10762]Kevin H[/MENTION]

 

[Roy1961]

kestrel

 

[Roy1961]

View attachment 174069

Same individual owl as earlier , but it looks like he has changed out his feathers. ( orientation is flipped but he still has the little black dot in his left eye)
Of the three young, one two are casualties , don't know about the third.

Beautiful, i can never get close enough to the burrowing owls i see.