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[Benjamin DeHaven]

Hey all!

Three birds, only one positive ID. These were all taken from my front yard when the birds wouldn't let me pack my birding gear up to go birding elsewhere! So all of these are from Timonium, Maryland which is in Baltimore County. The date was today, 9/25/12.

#1 Broad-winged Hawk (center) and Cooper's Hawk? (right).

DSC_6885 by BadBirds, on Flickr


#2 To me this is a Clay-colored Sparrow but eBird.com says that might be a bit of a stretch with only a handful within 50 miles of my house. Face just doesn't say Chipping to me.

DSC_7097 by BadBirds, on Flickr

DSC_7095 by BadBirds, on Flickr

Thanks!

Benjamin

[JimBob]

Leaning on Red-tailed Hawk and Cooper's. . .

Also thinking Chipping Sparrow for the second.

[TheBillyPilgrim]

Sparrow is a Chippy with the dark lores.

[Benjamin DeHaven]

I thought the bigger guys were all broad-winged. This is the scene 3 minutes after I walked to the car:


DSC_6941 by BadBirds, on Flickr

At one point there were 13 in a single kettle over my house. It was really neat because they were low! I had to take my 500mm zoom all the way down to 200mm and still couldn't get the full picture at once.

[Pat B.]

Nice yardbirds, whatever they are!

[TheBillyPilgrim]

Yup, those are all Broad-wings.

[grammarcat]

Agree with broad-winged and chipping sparrow. The buteo in the first picture does have a hint of a belly-band like a red-tailed, but the shape of the wings and their thin black border say broad-winged.