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Re: please help with bird ID (near Blackwater NWR)

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Jim Moore

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Jim Moore

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Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:35:02 -0500

The 5 photos in the first link are all of a young Red-tailed Hawk
showing the diagnostic patagial bars and belly band.

http://sarahanderson.smugmug.com/Nature/photos-for-documentation-only/20550021_zTFVxQ#1627834818_vNp46hT

I don't know see a Bald Eagle in the first link, though there's at
least one in the second, but Sarah's ID request only concerns the
first link as I understand it.

Jim Moore
Rockville, MD

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Tony Futcher <> wrote:
> Looks to me like a Red-tailed Hawk, and an immature Bald Eagle.
>
> Tony Futcher
> Hyattsville, MD
>
> On 12/11/2011 11:38 PM, Sarah Anderson wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I need help ID-ing a bird we saw on Friday on Decoursey Bridge Road near
>> Blackwater NWR.  Embarrassingly, I mis-identified this as a Golden Eagle in
>> my species report, but after looking at the photos it's clear to me that was
>> wrong, wrong, wrong.  In my defense, the bird took off almost as soon as we
>> saw it, from some distance and what we got the best look at initially was
>> the plummage on the head, back and top of the wings.  Didn't get a look at
>> the bird's undercarriage until I started reviewing my photos yesterday.   I
>> was looking at it through my camera viewfinder with a not-nearly long enough
>> lens ... and we really wanted it to be a Golden as we were told there had
>> been Goldens seen in that area.  Anyway, now I'm thinking it's a
>> rough-legged hawk, but my bird ID confidence is at low ebb, so assistance
>> would be greatly appreciated.  Here is the link to a gallery of quite
>> inferior photos of it - but the ones that show the legs are the ones that
>> really help, I think.  (The photos are heavily cropped from the originals,
>> hence the low quality, but I think there is enough detail to ID):
>>
>> photos of ??? hawk??
>>
>> When you are done looking at those, if you want to see other photos I took
>> on Friday in and around Blackwater, they are on display here:
>>
>> Sarah's photos - Recent Additions gallery
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>>
>> Sarah Anderson
>> Cabin John, Maryland
>>
>>
>>
>>
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