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Title: saw through the window
Post by: LowRyter on June 12, 2016, 05:34:51 PM
It was lurking on the fence post peering in my neighbor's yard.  Bev said it seemed to swoop in there after I snapped it.


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Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: oldbike54 on June 12, 2016, 05:38:21 PM
 Tell me it ate the neighbor's dog  :shocked: :evil:

 Dusty
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: LowRyter on June 12, 2016, 06:14:42 PM
.......could I be so lucky?
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: Guzzistajohn on June 12, 2016, 06:21:26 PM
 :thumb:
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: vino on June 12, 2016, 06:35:56 PM
Nice pic, Red Tailed Hawk?
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: fotoguzzi on June 12, 2016, 06:38:43 PM
once an Owl came to check out my waterfalls.  (sorry about the ad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIhD0YxIr04
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: LowRyter on June 12, 2016, 06:42:52 PM
Nice pic, Red Tailed Hawk?

dunno.  I was thinking that or a Cooper's. 
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: Gliderjohn on June 12, 2016, 07:09:44 PM
Nice pic! Sure is nice when the turn into posers and you have a camera handy.
GliderJohn
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: Gliderjohn on June 12, 2016, 07:18:28 PM
Here are a couple of cute swallows that nested under the eave of our sun room.
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GliderJohn
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: Muzz on June 13, 2016, 12:37:35 AM
Nice pic! Sure is nice when the turn into posers and you have a camera handy.
GliderJohn

Now you will have those suckers each year AND their offspring. :evil:

Hope you like cleaning bird poop!

Must admit that if I ever had swallows try to build on the house I would wreck the nest until they gave up and went and pooped in someone else's place.

edit.  Oops, hit the wrong "quote" Was supposed to be the swallows. :embarrassed:
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: guzzitime on June 13, 2016, 10:20:25 AM
Those are hatchlings. Look at their beaks.
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: LowRyter on June 13, 2016, 10:22:07 AM
anyone know what kind of Hawk that is?

Red Hawk?  Cooper's Hawk.
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: fotoguzzi on June 13, 2016, 11:28:47 AM
anyone know what kind of Hawk that is?

Red Hawk?  Cooper's Hawk.
Swainson's Hawk?
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: oldbike54 on June 13, 2016, 11:44:24 AM
 I think that is a common buzzard , probably the most common hawk .

 Dusty
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: sib on June 13, 2016, 12:44:38 PM
I think that is a common buzzard , probably the most common hawk .

 Dusty
Buzzards are hawks?  Don't think so.  Around here, buzzards are carrion specialists, whereas hawks prefer their prey on the hoof.
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: oldbike54 on June 13, 2016, 12:51:54 PM
Buzzards are hawks?  Don't think so.  Around here, buzzards are carrion specialists, whereas hawks prefer their prey on the hoof.

 They are in the same genus , Buteo . All hawks will scavenge to some extent , and the common buzzard is also a raptor .

 Dusty
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: wrbix on June 13, 2016, 12:54:06 PM
It's a red shouldered hawk - see the few red feathers on leading edge base of wing.
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: wrbix on June 13, 2016, 12:55:59 PM
Turkey vulture (commonly known as buzzard) is genus Cathartes
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: oldbike54 on June 13, 2016, 01:04:18 PM
Turkey vulture (commonly known as buzzard) is genus Cathartes

 Yes , different from a common buzzard .

 "I'm a chicken hawk , and you're a chicken"  :laugh:

  Dusty
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: wrbix on June 13, 2016, 01:18:18 PM
Common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is not native to North America, nor to Oklahoma.
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: fotoguzzi on June 13, 2016, 01:21:35 PM
But what kind of owl in my video?
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: oldbike54 on June 13, 2016, 01:26:37 PM
Common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is not native to North America, nor to Oklahoma.

 True , but neither are lots of other critters  :laugh:

 Dusty
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: wrbix on June 13, 2016, 01:27:30 PM
Barred owl.
They're the ones that make all the really spooky noises at night calling back and forth.
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: LowRyter on June 13, 2016, 01:28:49 PM
buzzards are not hawks.  neither are owls.  we have plenty of those around here too.

it might be a Red Hawk but I see no red.  I've never heard of Swainson's Hawk.  It does look like the photos as it also looks like a Cooper's Hawk. 

and mentioning owls, I have one here that make really scary noises at night makes a "whoosh" when he soars through my back yard. 
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: oldbike54 on June 13, 2016, 01:34:48 PM
buzzards are not hawks.  neither are owls.  we have plenty of those around here too.

it might be a Red Hawk but I see no red.  I've never heard of Swainson's Hawk.  It does look like the photos as it also looks like a Cooper's Hawk. 

and mentioning owls, I have one here that make really scary noises at night makes a "whoosh" when he soars through my back yard.

 Well , according to the experts Cooper's hawks do like to hang out in the backyards of leafy subdivisions  :laugh: I'm thinking you need a bigger bird feeder ...

 Dusty
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: wrbix on June 13, 2016, 01:36:48 PM
Well.... There are Red Tailed Hawks and Red Shouldered Hawks. This is definitely a Red Shouldered. See the rust colored feathers leading edge of base of wing?

Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) is the common name for a common raptor of Europe and GB that is a hawk. What we in amurica call a buzzard is a turkey vulture and is, indeed, not a hawk. Confused yet?
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: LowRyter on June 13, 2016, 01:40:22 PM
OK.  We're calling it:

Red Shouldered Hawk. 

Thanks for your participation to help identify.  (except for the guy that called it a "buzzard"- that really sux)
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: oldbike54 on June 13, 2016, 01:42:57 PM
OK.  We're calling it:

Red Shouldered Hawk. 

Thanks for your participation to help identify.  (except for the guy that called it a "buzzard"- that really sux)

 Same thing John , sorry to shatter your illusions  :evil:

 Bill , yet ?????


 Dusty
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: wrbix on June 13, 2016, 01:44:39 PM


Thanks for your participation to help identify.  (except for the guy that called it a "buzzard"- that really sux)
Well, actually it does resemble Buteo buteo - but we're not in Europe anymore, Toto - alas.
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: oldbike54 on June 13, 2016, 01:46:57 PM
Well, actually it does resemble Buteo buteo - but we're not in Europe anymore, Toto - alas.

 Yeah , and tell those big snakes in the Everglades they don't belong there either , time to go home  :shocked:

 Dusty
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: LowRyter on June 13, 2016, 01:47:21 PM
Well, actually it does resemble Buteo buteo - but we're not in Europe anymore, Toto - alas.

OK, I get it.  "European Buzzards" are Hawks and not Buzzards.

my apologies.  Now I wonder if it was a red hawk or a euro buzzard on vacation?
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: oldbike54 on June 13, 2016, 01:51:29 PM
OK, I get it.  "European Buzzards" are Hawks and not Buzzards.

my apologies.  Now I wonder if it was a red hawk or a euro buzzard on vacation?

 Well John , you aren't far from RT 66 ...

  Dusty
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: wrbix on June 13, 2016, 02:00:03 PM
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin
or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not
strangers to our land.

Discuss.
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: Guzzistajohn on June 13, 2016, 02:31:33 PM
I always honk at those when I see them perched on a road sign, most of the time they flip me the human :boozing:
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: blackcat on June 13, 2016, 02:55:42 PM
I remember doing a job in an apartment overlooking Central Park and we would occasionally see a Red Tail hawk taking out pigeons in mid-flight.
Title: Re: saw through the window
Post by: sib on June 13, 2016, 06:14:03 PM
OK, I get it.  "European Buzzards" are Hawks and not Buzzards.
...Now I wonder if it was a red hawk or a euro buzzard on vacation?
Alas, it's getting harder for euro buzzards to travel to the US these days, with all the paranoia about immigration.