One month ago, I observed a leucistic red-tailed hawk in the hills east of Ammon. It was hunting the stubble fields on the edge of the new developments and was easy to see on power poles and fence poles. It hung around for two days and I haven’t seen it since. Interesting to have so many sightings in one year. A coincidence?
On Feb 3, 2021, at 12:41 PM, Elizabeth Medes <liz.medes@…> wrote:
My guess would be barred, the dark eyes, the defined streaks. Great puzzler!
Liz Medes
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Awesome!! That looks like the one we saw in Idaho Falls last spring. The front was almost totally white and we couldn’t figure out what it was till its back was to us. We just had a 300zoom with us that day. This is a very cropped photo that wasn’t a total blur.
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Definitely a Barred Owl :). From the description of what happened, it probably saw its reflection in the window and thought it to be an intruder in its territory. It was probably bewildered when the intruder didn’t move, actually “fighting back” :). Birds are funny, yeah they are 🙂
We have two different leucistic red tail hawks in the Magic Valley and I thought people might be interested in seeing photos of these cool birds. Quite interesting that we have two of them…
The bird on pivot was seen between Filer & Buhl yesterday by Charlotte Eberlein and so I went out and took a photo.
I think the eyes are dark – barred have those really dark eyes vs the yellow of a great gray (looks like some light from the camera reflecting in the eyes). The frontal coloration favors barred, size favors barred when compared to the size of the fence, bill color favors barred and the population density in this area favors barred. IMHO 🙂
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It’s definitely a Barred Owl. Great Gray lacks the white
underparts and white barring on the upperparts and has dark facial
discs.
Cliff
On 2/3/21 10:15 AM, forsmann wrote:
I think Great Gray
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 10:05
AM julie marcum <1mucram@…> wrote:
A
gentleman reported that this owl flew into his window twice
last night. He is listed as “Parkcenter” area. Comments ID
as barred vs great grey. I’m inclined to go with barred since
we have seen them at Shakespeare.
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