Any birders out there got an ID on this wonderful animal ?
For now he is just a huge ghettohawk. Must be an endless food supply in the ghetto prairie where I saw him hunting. I didnt have any kind of telephoto lens to get a better res shot of him. This was a very large bird.
I didnt get great angles of him, but hes too bright to be a turkey vulture – and he didnt fly in that kind of pattern. He perched atop a derelict telephone pole, and then went out to float on air currents over the fields while spotting for food below.
Or is he / she a Falcon ? The head markings sure look similar.
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This is a Red-tailed hawk. They are often seen sitting on poles or trees near open grassy areas, waiting for helpless prey (mice, rabbits, voles) to wander by… not much of a hunter, they more or less wait and watch for movement on the land. Not a rare bird in this area. Hope this helps.
Looks like a haw, maybe a Goshawk?
http://books.google.com/books?id=r6yakrkA74AC&printsec=frontcover&dq=peterson+birds+of+north+america#PPA131,M1
Over on the east side we’ve a bunch of fug ugly turkey vultures back again:
http://adrianplatts.com/tv3.jpg