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Lair3514 wrote: Image
I think this is a juvenile Peregrine Falcon

Great shots!
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Daiv, thanks for ID help above. I can see it now. The pattern around the eye. So it's a peregrine falcon! I'll quit calling it a ferruginous hawk. Your pictures of the Harris hawk are great.
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The "birds of prey" can be so difficult to ID because of their various "phases" depending on age and/or season.
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daiv wrote:The "birds of prey" can be so difficult to ID because of their various "phases" depending on age and/or season.
They can also vary according to location, for example, Red Shouldered Hawks this far south are often a lighter color than their northern cousins. (I'm told that southern Bald Eagles are smaller than the ones found in the north, but if the ones I have seen are "small" the "big" ones must be truly amazing!)
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Found these while cleaning up my hard drive. After seeing these I am ready to go over to the coast to do some bird watching.

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And finally a small Luna Bird
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Harriet,
What are the flying birds in the first pic? Avocets?

Love the Tern pic!

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Not Avocets, I think they are Willets. Until they fly away you would never know they had such dramatic markings on their wings!Image
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While I'm at it, I may as well show off some of the other shots from that same trip:

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Red-tailed Hawk, taken 7 AM this morning. Not much light to work with but he stayed long enough form me to fiddle with the dials.

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Andy_CT wrote: Not much light to work with but he stayed long enough form me to fiddle with the dials.
hope you don't mind but i fiddled with the image.

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No I don't mind Hob, this one best reflects how it looked in person.

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No matter how you fiddle with him, he is a handsome bird!
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Super cool shot Andy! Not hard to see where they got the name.

I notice no other birds are at the feeder. :lol:
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daiv wrote: I notice no other birds are at the feeder. :lol:
Or squirrels! that's what he's looking for.
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