Help Me Identify a Bird

Re: Swainson's Hawk

dukw_butter — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:09:04 GMT

Cool. Thanks. That's a nice shot you got. Looks sharp.

Re: Swainson's Hawk

Bird Brain — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:49:11 GMT

I agree...Swainson's light. Good shot. Below is a photo I got a couple of weeks ago. You can see the color pattern is the same in your photo.

Swainson's Hawk

dukw_butter — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:35:58 GMT

I saw this hawk recently soaring over an open field at the edge of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. I think that it's a Swainson's Hawk with a light color morph. Is this right? I notice that the wings are more pointed than a Red-tailed Hawk, and his tail is longer as well. Sorry for the poor quality of the photo, he was soaring really high. I shot this with a Canon EOS 50D and a 400mm lens. He was up there. His prominent white markings beneath his wings made me think he was actually a remote controlled plane at first.