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To: Sylvester McMonkey McBean
THIS is a red-tail...near my house!

I concede it is possible it might be an adolescent red-tail...the feather patterns on the dark feathers do look very, very similar. Here is a comparison image I made:

I also saw this description: Most Red-tailed Hawks are rich brown above and pale below, with a streaked belly and, on the wing underside, a dark bar between shoulder and wrist. The tail is usually pale below and cinnamon-red above, though in young birds it’s brown and banded. “Dark-morph” birds are all chocolate-brown with a warm red tail. “Rufous-morph” birds are reddish-brown on the chest with a dark belly.

By this it seems there is wide variation in the irregular dark pattern marks, and I have heard the tail doesn't always have to be that red.

50 posted on 06/21/2015 7:01:20 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: rlmorel

I don’t think that Red-Tailed Hawk killed that squirrel, but rather, is feasting on ROAD KILL !


72 posted on 06/21/2015 7:54:26 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: rlmorel

It does look very much like a red tail, we have them all over our property. The locals call them chicken hawks, and for good reason...they will decimate free range chickens.


87 posted on 06/21/2015 9:29:11 PM PDT by JGT
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