It’s been a couple of days since these photos were taken, because we had talked ourselves into believing that we had spotted an immature bald eagle orbiting the neighborhood. Pretty exciting stuff.
However, after two days of extensive research – OK, we looked in Audubon and Peterson Western Birds field guides and also availed ourselves of the Google – we arrived at the conclusion that our sighting might easily have been a red-tailed hawk, which isn’t nearly as cool as an eagle.
The under wing coloring doesn't seem mottled enough for a young eagle, the hawk's red-tail doesn’t quite show up in these photos like it always had before, and the osprey and Swainson’s hawks were ruled out because of their the pale undersides.
grown-up reality check, say it’s a large
red-tailed hawk...maybe.
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