Watch the Birdie

[G.K.]

Finally caught one on camera, elusive little so and so's.......Watch the birdie




Anyone know what species these critters are?

[Bass]

Nice catch
I would say a Golden Eagle.
Next, find an Orca please

[G.K.]

I think I should have gone around:





.....next?

[Fozzer]

The last shot look a bit fishy to me!... ...!

Paul.... ..... ...!

[Bass]

[G.K.]

The last shot look a bit fishy to me!... ...!

Paul.... ..... ...!

.....er, yes . I won't carp on about it though, this isn't the right plaice.

The first shot a genuine find though.

[PhantomTweak]

That last shot is one whale of a picture!

I woud have gone around myself, definately!

I think the bird in the first shot may be a redtailed hawk. We have a mated pair living in a tree very near our house and we love to watch them soar the thermals looking for critters for the hatchlings! They also have a neat trick of waiting for our covey of quail that live around us to get comfy feeding in our front yard, then doing a low swoop towords them with the house behind the quail. The quail natuarally panic and fly up in all directions, including right into our big picture windows. Thus you get a few stunned quail laying on the lawn for the hawks to come grab and fly away with! Very slick little operation, all in all, altho don't think the quail appreciate the hawk's skill and intelligence in using this little stratigem!

Have fun all!

Pat☺

[G.K.]

Thanks Pat, I'll check it out.

I've worked out why they're so difficult to spot, they're only textured on the top side so invisible when viewed from beneath. It gives them an elusive quality much like the real thing, one minute you can see them but take your eyes of them and they disappear..... they twist their tails and flap occasionally but I expect most of you knew that anyway.

[JP]

I've never really had an issue spotting them, more an issue with them being so BLOODY HUGE that they outsize a cessna up close!
Also, no clue what bird it is but it doen't look like a hawk to me, more like an eagle or a buyzard than anything. (A perigrine falcon killed a pigeon by flying it into our kitchen windows and 2, possibly 3 kestrels are seen near us during the warmer months, soaring on the hill looking for mice in the grass (and stupid crows, some just lie on the ground for 3 hours and then get some food and return, one got attacked but the flock of crows quickly chased the kestrel away.)

[PhantomTweak]

Redtails can come in all colors, with the juveniles tending to the more muted colors than adults, frequently with no red at all in the pale phase hawks.



Redshouldered hawks are the only other hawk to soar up high with their tails spread, but they tend to have a longer neck and narrower head than redtails.



Other than having an identical color pattern, IMO the redtail most cloesly fits the body and wing shapes and sizes. Eagles tend to have longer but somewhat narrower wings, with more widely spread primaries, and buzzardes/vultures, including condors, have ratty looking primaries, widely spaced, and soar with their wings slightly high in a distinctive "V " position.

But once again, this is just an opinion, and for all I know, it's a generic SimHawk of some sort

And as I've said before, and will likely say over and over, not only have I been wrong in the past (frequently!), I will be wrong in the future! Often!

Great evening to all!
Pat☺

[Bass]

This is a Golden Eagle (King Eagle, if you want)

[OldAirmail]

I also use this chart for fish.

[Bass]

Dont you find joy watching anything

[OldAirmail]

Women.

[G.K.]

Some folk stuff them too. Birds that is.


...The white band across the tail does look like a Golden Eagle.....mmmm

Perhaps I need to measure one. The Red Tailed Hawk (or Chicken Hawk according to wiki) grows to about 6' wingspan, the Golden Eagle 8' to 9'. Just off to find a tape measure