Today's image is one that I took a while back of a bird I see fairly often all year. This is a Red Tail Hawk which are very common in my area of Kansas. They can be easily identified in flight by the short black band on the underside of the wing that you can see in the photo. When they are just sitting, they appear similar to a couple of other hawks, the Red Shoulder and the Sharp Shinned.
I don't see enough of them to even start to try to sort out who is who. I hear what i am told is a red-tailed hawk when walking through a particular forest
ReplyDeleteYes, they use their calls for eagles in movies apparently because an eagle screech is actually somewhat wimpy. LOL
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