saw through the window

[LowRyter]

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.

[oldbike54]

 Tell me it ate the neighbor's dog 

 Dusty

[LowRyter]

.......could I be so lucky?

[Guzzistajohn]

 

[vino]

Nice pic, Red Tailed Hawk?

[fotoguzzi]

once an Owl came to check out my waterfalls.  (sorry about the ad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIhD0YxIr04

[LowRyter]

Nice pic, Red Tailed Hawk?

dunno.  I was thinking that or a Cooper's. 

[Gliderjohn]

Nice pic! Sure is nice when the turn into posers and you have a camera handy.
GliderJohn

[Gliderjohn]

Here are a couple of cute swallows that nested under the eave of our sun room.

GliderJohn

[Muzz]

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.

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.

[guzzitime]

Those are hatchlings. Look at their beaks.

[LowRyter]

anyone know what kind of Hawk that is?

Red Hawk?  Cooper's Hawk.

[fotoguzzi]

anyone know what kind of Hawk that is?

Red Hawk?  Cooper's Hawk.

Swainson's Hawk?

[oldbike54]

 I think that is a common buzzard , probably the most common hawk .

 Dusty

[sib]

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.

[oldbike54]

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

[wrbix]

It's a red shouldered hawk - see the few red feathers on leading edge base of wing.

[wrbix]

Turkey vulture (commonly known as buzzard) is genus Cathartes

[oldbike54]

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" 

  Dusty

[wrbix]

Common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is not native to North America, nor to Oklahoma.

[fotoguzzi]

But what kind of owl in my video?

[oldbike54]

Common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is not native to North America, nor to Oklahoma.

 True , but neither are lots of other critters 

 Dusty

[wrbix]

Barred owl.
They're the ones that make all the really spooky noises at night calling back and forth.

[LowRyter]

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. 

[oldbike54]

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  I'm thinking you need a bigger bird feeder ...

 Dusty

[wrbix]

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?

[LowRyter]

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)

[oldbike54]

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 

 Bill , yet ?????


 Dusty

[wrbix]

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.

[oldbike54]

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 

 Dusty