Ben's first Quiz Bird!
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Ben returned from the San Diego Birding Festival today and that means his Pentax K100D is back, too. Hopefully I'll get some more time to tinker around with it. Ben is a relatively new digiscoper and this was the only bird picture he was able to capture combining the Pentax with his Leica APO spotting scope. In a future post, I'll show the plastic ring Ben constructed to allow the Swarovski DCA to connect to his Leica scope. Anyway, since Ben was unable to get the entire bird in the frame, I guess we'll have to settle for a quiz. Can you identify the bird carrying away half a rodent?
Update: 02/14/07
Turns out Ben did capture another image of this bird: ANSWER
Quiz images © 2007 Ben Lizdas
posted by Mike McDowell @ 11:41 AM
11 comments
11 Comments:
With a quick glance I would wager its a Cooper's Hawk.
I vote for a rought legged hawk.
Is it a Red-shouldered Hawk?
I want to guess a young falcon of some type - maybe a prairie falcon???
Is it a juvenile ferruginous hawk?
Len
Is it a Gyrfalcon?
Juvenile Red-tailed?
Juvie red-tailed....
It seems to be a Buteo based on size and shape (and feeding location). If it was taken in San Diego, and based on the small, light flecking that goes all the way down onto the feathers of the legs, my vote is for immature Ferruginous Hawk.
One of you has the correct ID.
Mike
His eyes are enormous!
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