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All kinds of questions came to mind when I saw this.  Red-tails are loners, what are they doing together?  I assume female left, male right.  They migrate but do they migrate together? Just trying to understand what these birds were doing together as this is not the mating season.    

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Nice pic!  Were they together for a long time?  Maybe one just happened to land where the other was to say "hello" (or whatever birds do to greet each other)

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i think the bird on the right is a swainson's hawk, matt.

wow natureboy you scared me

I went through my shots after the one I posted and have poor pictures of both birds in flight

looks like they are both red-tailed  (?)

Curlybird, they were sitting there as I pulled up and only left when I got out of the truck

So am I back to gender?

 

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touche'.  i now see how wrong i was.

I posted on the ID thread and got confirmation that there is a gender difference.  My guidebook makes no reference to it.  BTW, another person made the same Swainson's ID as you did, means that you have a pretty good eye.  I did not want to ask this in the ID forum, but wouldn't two different raptors in that close a proximity be improbable?  That both of you made the observation says that it wouldn't be unheard of.  An issue like this is what separates someone just walking in the woods vs a birder. 

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