One of the important field marks for this "interesting hawk" is the large amount of white on it's head. The pics in my earlier posts don't show this very well. The pic above, not a great pic to begin with and made worse by serious enlargement, does show the quite whitish head on this hawk. It may be necessary to double-click on the pic to enlarge it further to see this. While juvenile Eastern Red-tail shares many of the field marks on this bird, they do not have large amount of white that is on this hawk's head. SeEtta
One last pic of "interesting hawk"
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10-17-09 Postnote: Tony Leukering, who has extensive professional and birding experience, thinks that this bird is a juvenile light morph Harlan's. Tony is a Senior Ornithologist with Geo-Marine, Inc., "has worked for four different bird observatories from coast to coast." He is the quizmaster for both Colo Field Ornithologists and the American Birding Association.
One of the important field marks for this "interesting hawk" is the large amount of white on it's head. The pics in my earlier posts don't show this very well. The pic above, not a great pic to begin with and made worse by serious enlargement, does show the quite whitish head on this hawk. It may be necessary to double-click on the pic to enlarge it further to see this. While juvenile Eastern Red-tail shares many of the field marks on this bird, they do not have large amount of white that is on this hawk's head. SeEtta
One of the important field marks for this "interesting hawk" is the large amount of white on it's head. The pics in my earlier posts don't show this very well. The pic above, not a great pic to begin with and made worse by serious enlargement, does show the quite whitish head on this hawk. It may be necessary to double-click on the pic to enlarge it further to see this. While juvenile Eastern Red-tail shares many of the field marks on this bird, they do not have large amount of white that is on this hawk's head. SeEtta
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