Looks to me like a red-tailed hawk.
looks like a Northern Goshawk
Red tail hawk. Do not leave your pets unattended.
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Those photos are pretty blurry. Maybe swampsniper would like a free roundtrip photo-shoot?
someone here is an expert, and all the rest are full of crap....haha
I saw this one in the morning in front of the house. He was eating a possum which had been run over that night.Don’t go outside without a hardhat.
You can submit a picture and get it identified.
http://birding.about.com/od/identifyingbirds/a/submitphotos.htm
When you see feathered legs like that and not bare legs, it's most often a FALCON!
Immature red-tailed hawk. They don’t pose any threat to your property, and they will prey on squirrels. Since you already have a nesting population, not much more you can do except protect them from your neighbors.
Red-Tailed Hawks are a main-stay in American falconry, the species are incredible survivors...
Ethan Hawk
Red tail
Have some that have nested around my neighborhood
Sounds like this bird (if it is a Swainson’s) will not stick around. Check and see if barn owls live in your area. If so, you might build a barn owl box (find instructions online, we did!) and install it in your back yard or wherever. We used to have an awful problem with gophers. The barn owl box that we built stayed empty for five years, but in year six, they moved in, raised chicks, and cleaned out the gophers in a summer! LOL! It was amazing. The owls moved on but we subsequently ended up with a feral cat (neutered & shots, but she was wild at first) who has kept the population down since then. Barn owls are awesome! (They are a little noisy at night, lots of hissing and squawks, but settle down about an hour after dark.)
BTW, if you do build a barn owl box, check the recommended dimensions of the door and stick with those dimensions. Great horned owls EAT barn owls. The door is sized small, to let barn owls in, but keep the great horned owls out, away from the chicks.
White breast patch, dark streaked belly band, white streaked V-pattern on the back, yet undeveloped red in tail, overall head shape, bill shape, size, tolerance of humans, nesting site, tail length, tail markings, proportions, coloration, all scream light, Western, juvenile Red-tailed Hawk.
Lucky you! But couldn’t you have made the pictures a little larger? I had to put my reading glasses on.........LOL!
Pics are a tad small. Can you make them bigger? /s