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Great Horned Owl
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Northeastern MA
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This bird was right outside on my deck, but I wasn't able to get a good shot as the screen and window were both down. Lacking the black head eliminates the Cooper. Is it a red tailed??
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Monroe County, WV, USA
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Great Horned Owl
Join Date: May 2010
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Grub
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Minnesota
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redshoulder hawk?
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Edmond, Oklahoma
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Jack... it looks like a red-shouldered hawk. The somewhat similar looking broad-winged is a bit "chunkier" in appearance and is usually not as rufus in color on the shoulders and back. If you saw the bird in flight (overhead), the red shoulder has a fairly long tail with several horizontal strips.
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Great Horned Owl
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Northeastern MA
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One of the features of the bird that didn't come out in the pictures was the yellow lores. When I looked up red shouldered hawk, the yellow lores jumped right out at me. The rest of the bird in the pictures is identical also, including the noteworthy wealth of feathers on his legs that made them look massive. Well, that's a first for me in my backyard birding experience. I had a Cooper's hawk here for most of the winter. But this guy was bigger and more impressive size wise. He was also not as terrifying to the birds. In one of the pictures I took, the mourning doves were still lined up on the power lines about 150 yards away. Perhaps they knew he had just eaten??? I missed his flight as I was fiddling with the camera and, when I look up, he had gone. Yes, he looked just like this: Red-shouldered Hawks
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I had mentioned broad-winged as a possibility mainly because of the combination of the dark head with the very pale throat patch seen in light-phase juveniles of that species. However, given the degree of individual variation within each of these two quite similar species, I for one would be very hesitant to confirm this one.
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Great Horned Owl
Join Date: May 2010
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I'm learning, though, that the way to really become familiar with species (and I'm sure you learned this in entomology) is to go through the exact process I'm now going through. The key for me, though, is learning to enjoy this learning process and not to become frustrated. The same goes for my trying to learn to use a new camera. I have something in me that wants to be "there" without going through the labor of first not knowing and, then, gradually learning. Strange too, in that I'm a school teacher...
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