No...it ain't no Seahawk.
http://youtu.be/6er6R5FOR5o
I've been watching the hawk in the crummy video above for the last couple months, and can't figure out what it is.
I've looked at several "ID the hawk" pages online, and have seen a few pages listing all hawks typically seen in WA State. To my eye, it doesn't look like any of them - but I'm about as bird-dumb as one can get.
It's very large - almost twice the size of the Red Tailed hawks I used to see routinely in CA. It's not shy at all; I've driven by it many times, and you have to get extremely close before it takes off - and even then, it just does as the video shows, and pops up to a nearby tree. It spends a lot of time on the ground right outside the house, right where I took the video. Likely because, we had tons of moles this year, and their activity is obvious. Whatever this bird is, I'm hoping he's getting full and telling his friends...
Kind of hard to tell from the video, but it has a vibrant rust/red colored chest - solid colored, not mottled at all that I can see. Head, top of wings and back appear to be a brown hue - but again, mostly solid in color. Wings underneath have a fair amount of white on them, but striped with brown/red.
So come on, C-Brat ornithologists and/or amateur bird watchers. Fill me in.
http://youtu.be/6er6R5FOR5o
I've been watching the hawk in the crummy video above for the last couple months, and can't figure out what it is.
I've looked at several "ID the hawk" pages online, and have seen a few pages listing all hawks typically seen in WA State. To my eye, it doesn't look like any of them - but I'm about as bird-dumb as one can get.
It's very large - almost twice the size of the Red Tailed hawks I used to see routinely in CA. It's not shy at all; I've driven by it many times, and you have to get extremely close before it takes off - and even then, it just does as the video shows, and pops up to a nearby tree. It spends a lot of time on the ground right outside the house, right where I took the video. Likely because, we had tons of moles this year, and their activity is obvious. Whatever this bird is, I'm hoping he's getting full and telling his friends...
Kind of hard to tell from the video, but it has a vibrant rust/red colored chest - solid colored, not mottled at all that I can see. Head, top of wings and back appear to be a brown hue - but again, mostly solid in color. Wings underneath have a fair amount of white on them, but striped with brown/red.
So come on, C-Brat ornithologists and/or amateur bird watchers. Fill me in.