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buteo jamaicensis
The chocolate morph Red-Tailed is back on my property. Starting to see him more often now.
Spotted on Feb 5, 2013
Submitted on Feb 5, 2013
13 Comments
Thank you Dixie and Elsa! Really appreciate it :)
Spectacular!
Oh wow! These are fantastic!
Yep probably. i was pretty green with my raptor IDs at the time :) thank you for the compliment!
Super cool that this bird is banded, that way you always know it's the same one! I think originally you thought that your other two spottings were two separate birds. Super exciting it's the same guy! I will live vicariously through your photos for now!
That's awesome Emily! and thank you very much. Sry i took so long to get back to you. there are actually 2 others that are the same bird. if you notice he has a tag on his right leg :)
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/144...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/121...
I'm so excited this guy came back! God he's gorgeous!!! I know you were lucky enough to spot 2 dark morph RTH last year, right? Will you post a link to the other spotting if you think it's the same bird?! This bird is drop dead gorgeous! I love seeing the pics!
I just found a dark morph RTH in my area on Sunday. He was very nervous and very far away. He didn't let me get close. :( Keep your fingers crossed that I get some beautiful pics too, just like yours!
Haha that'd be sweet. My brother lives in Texas so maybe who knows.
I would say I have lots of red-tails here too, but I've gotten in the routine of taking the same route every time I bird, so I see the same red-tails so I don't take pictures of them anymore. The day I saw the prairie falcon and juv cooper's on my usual route was incredible since I rarely see anything besides kestrels and red-tails. And thanks :) I've gotten really into photography lately and try to take the best pictures I can of everything I see, especially if I don't know what it is. I really enjoy them! If you ever make it out to Texas, let me know! I'll give you a tour :)
Hahaha that's funny because I feel spoiled with how many Red-Tails are in my area, (although I love them!) so I try to photograph more rare or endangered raptors lately. but of course they're much harder to find ;p but i feel like you and Emily really have something going by trying to make every shot of every raptor worth while.
I'm not sure I would call her a ferug, but red-tail definitely would not be the first thing to pop in my head! But that's why I always have my camera, then if I can't ID, others can :) Finding a hawk is always exciting, no matter what it is!
Yeah Ashley she's beautiful :) there was some discussion on the last entry on whether or not she was actually a Ferruginous Hawk.
Very cool! Besides normal red-tails, I have only seen light morphed ones. I wouldn't even think this was a red-tail if I saw it! It's beautiful :)