Red Tailed Hawk In Our Back Yard

[GBGilbert]

This hawk visited our back yard in Potlatch, ID, often looking for a quick meal among the many birds that visited my wife's bird feeders. I took this from our dining room during a snowstorm in February.

 

[jeffashman]

Nice catch! Howdy and welcome!

 

[Bill in Texas]

This hawk visited our back yard in Potlatch, ID, often looking for a quick meal among the many birds that visited my wife's bird feeders. I took this from our dining room during a snowstorm in February.

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Howdy and welcome. That is a real environmental shot. I believe your bird is a Cooper's hawk, however, unless the Red-tails look different in your locale.

 

[GBGilbert]

Howdy and welcome. That is a real environmental shot. I believe your bird is a Cooper's hawk, however, unless the Red-tails look different in your locale.

Cooper's hawk works. Red tails are prevalent in our neck of the woods and we tend to refer to all hawks that way.

 

[RVT1K]

We had both back in NY. Cooper's Hawks are also quite a bit smaller than a Red Tail.