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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I think that’s a red tail hawk

Cooper’s are more gray w/ yellow eyes

(Had a Cooper’s hawk fly right into the side of my house last spring with a mourning dove in its talons. He was stunned, but managed to fly off w/ the dove when I made a rescue attempt)


6 posted on 01/20/2009 7:00:50 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: KosmicKitty
I think you may be right. Looking for the white tail tips. He may be too young to tell.
16 posted on 01/20/2009 7:16:39 PM PST by Daffynition ("Beauty is in the sty of the beholder." ~ Joe 6-pack)
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To: KosmicKitty
I think that’s a red tail hawk

I think young red tails have more distinctive dark colored, spade-shaped, back and side feathers (like the spade in a deck of cards, pointed end down but edged in thin white). And more white head feathers right above the beak.

24 posted on 01/20/2009 7:30:06 PM PST by rustbucket
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