Raptor ID Please

[WannaDig3687]

This guy has just recently started hanging out low in the trees by our driveway and creek. He flies low and even under our barn porch. He doesn't seem to be too concerned about us. I have been referring to it as a hawk. But, I have found that there are a lot of varieties of hawks in Ohio. I have never seen one get so close.








Thanks!

~Sis

 

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[Hillbilly Prince]

It's a raptor.

 

[Chadeaux]

Goshawk?

 

[buck8point]

Cooper's Hawk

 

[Kray Gelder]

He's got the blue color of a Cooper's hawk. If you have chickens, these guys love 'em.

 

[cactusrat]

Cooper's Hawk

Same here.

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

This guy has just recently started hanging out low in the trees by our driveway and creek. He flies low and even under our barn porch. He doesn't seem to be too concerned about us. I have been referring to it as a hawk. But, I have found that there are a lot of varieties of hawks in Ohio. I have never seen one get so close.

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Thanks!

~Sis

Since I was so unhelpful I will tell you a story. One day I went to the back door to let Albert out. He was a giant schnauser named after Albert King, and the best dog who ever existed. Just as I opened the door I saw through the screen a bird lying dead on the concrete landing with a drop of blood on him. I shut the door and stood looking at him. I looked down at Albert and told him to wait a minute. When I looked back out a hawk had landed next to the bird. The hawk looked much like your friend.
He had struck him in the air above the house. Nature at work.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Sis...don't know why, but those came out very overexposed..

All fixed.

 

[tamrock]

I was gonna say they're made by Ford, but I do think it's a Cooper's Hawk. I'm seeing more of that bird around here in my area in recent years. Once I was in the backyard and I heard the neighbors chickens all in a panic. I looked over the fence and just below a Cooper's Hawk had 3 hens pinned into a corner. The hawk then looked up at me and flew up on the fence just 5 feet from me and we looked at each other eye to eye for a few seconds before it took off.

 

[WannaDig3687]

It's a raptor.

Since I was so unhelpful I will tell you a story. One day I went to the back door to let Albert out. He was a giant schnauser named after Albert King, and the best dog who ever existed. Just as I opened the door I saw through the screen a bird lying dead on the concrete landing with a drop of blood on him. I shut the door and stood looking at him. I looked down at Albert and told him to wait a minute. When I looked back out a hawk had landed next to the bird. The hawk looked much like your friend.
He had struck him in the air above the house. Nature at work.

LOL! You got as far as I did in the ID.

Thanks for the story. And welcome to the My Daily Snapshot Forum!

 

[WannaDig3687]

Goshawk?

Cooper's Hawk

He's got the blue color of a Cooper's hawk. If you have chickens, these guys love 'em.

Same here.

Well, majority rules. Cooper's Hawk. Although it would've been cool if it was a Goshawk. They are not common in Ohio.

 

[WannaDig3687]

I was gonna say they're made by Ford, but I do think it's a Cooper's Hawk. I'm seeing more of that bird around here in my area in recent years. Once I was in the backyard and I heard the neighbors chickens all in a panic. I looked over the fence and just below a Cooper's Hawk had 3 hens pinned into a corner. The hawk then looked up at me and flew up on the fence just 5 feet from me and we looked at each other eye to eye for a few seconds before it took off.

Took me longer to figure out your joke than to decide between the hawks. LOL! Too early. Need more

Yeah, they don't seem to be very afraid of us.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Sis...don't know why, but those came out very overexposed..

All fixed.

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Thanks, Mike!

I was in the morning sun and he was in the shaded cover of the trees. I also didn't raise the flash because I was thinking I wouldn't need it with the bright sun. IDK, maybe it would have turned out better if I had raised it. I've pretty much given up on editing. Every time I edit, I make it worse.

 

[Hawks88]

Nice pics of the Cooper’s hawk. Looks very familiar to me.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Nice pics of the Cooper’s hawk. Looks very familiar to me.

LOL! Are you spying on me?

 

[Rookster]

If you have small anything. Puppies, kittens but they will clean the yard of rodents. If there wasn't something there he wasn't interested in, he wouldn't be there.

 

[worldtalker]

Nice pile of feathers.

I took a shot at touch-up.







GOD Bless

Chris

 

[WannaDig3687]

If you have small anything. Puppies, kittens but they will clean the yard of rodents. If there wasn't something there he wasn't interested in, he wouldn't be there.

I know what lured him in. I just recently hung up 2 bird feeders. Mr Wd said, "I wonder if he's eating the bird seed?" To which I replied, " More like he's eating the little birds who are feeding at the bird feeders!"

 

[WannaDig3687]

Thanks, Chris. I will look at you and Mike's cleaned up pics at work, where I have a better computer.

 

[ronwoodcraft]

OK. I'll be the odd one and say that this is a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk.