He was nice enough to hold up his leg for you and show you his bare lower shin 🙂
Yes they come in a huge range of colors within 50 miles of Boise I have seen some so dark they border on black and some so light they are almost white.
I saw that Cliff Weisse in his reply called this one an intermediate morph and why.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 7:12 PM, M Gregory <alanclarkg@…> wrote:
ok. thank you for the correction. Every time I go out looking, I see different color phases of red-tails. And they are all very different than the redtails I saw over 25 years in Pennsylvania and Vermont.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 7:06 PM, M Gregory <alanclarkg@…> wrote:
I think I attached the wrong pics to my earlier note about raptors. Here are two pics of the dark, red-phase Ferruginous Hawk I found perched on a utility pole today.
alan
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Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
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Alan C Gregory Lt. Col., USAF, Ret. Mountain Home, ID Air Force Public Affairs Alumni Association, life member Member, North American Butterfly Association
Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
ok. thank you for the correction. Every time I go out looking, I see different color phases of red-tails. And they are all very different than the redtails I saw over 25 years in Pennsylvania and Vermont.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 7:06 PM, M Gregory <alanclarkg@…> wrote:
I think I attached the wrong pics to my earlier note about raptors. Here are two pics of the dark, red-phase Ferruginous Hawk I found perched on a utility pole today.
alan
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Alan C Gregory Lt. Col., USAF, Ret. Mountain Home, ID Air Force Public Affairs Alumni Association, life member Member, North American Butterfly Association
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Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
I think I attached the wrong pics to my earlier note about raptors. Here are two pics of the dark, red-phase Ferruginous Hawk I found perched on a utility pole today.
alan
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Alan C Gregory Lt. Col., USAF, Ret. Mountain Home, ID Air Force Public Affairs Alumni Association, life member Member, North American Butterfly Association
The only photos I see here are House Sparrows and female Red-winged Blackbirds … is there a missing large flock photo?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 3:42 PM, M Gregory <alanclarkg@…> wrote:
I am disappointed with my photos and I clicked off dozens. I think there are some Black Rosy-Finches mixed in the large flock with Gray-crowned. Was 32 and breezy at the time I revisited the site in Elmore County this morning. There were Horned Larks feeding in a plowed field across Beet Dump Road from the finches.
Alan Gregory
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Alan C Gregory Lt. Col., USAF, Ret. Mountain Home, ID Air Force Public Affairs Alumni Association, life member Member, North American Butterfly Association
Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
No, there are dark morphs that aren’t Harlan’s. Harlan’s has the
cold brown plumage with stark white markings, lacking the warmer
brown coloration of other Dark Morphs – even the light morph
Harlan’s has the cold brown color. Alan’s bird has the same
pattern as a light morph but with rufous underparts and brown
streaking/upperparts – they’re also called “Rufous” morphs for
this reason.
Cliff
On 1/10/21 4:21 PM, Ken Miracle via
groups.io wrote:
Thanks Cliff for the info. on intermediate morph … do they not get
called dark morph until they get to the really dark level of the
Harlan’s with the white tipped tail ?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 4:18 PM, Cliff Weisse <cliffandlisa@…>
wrote:
I don’t think this one is a House Sparrow ;-).
It looks like an intermediate morph Redtail based on
rufous underparts and brown belly streaking.
Cliff
On 1/10/21 3:54 PM, M Gregory
wrote:
Saw many buteos this
morning in rural Elmore County. I hope I have the ID
right on this bird: Ferruginous Hawk
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Alan C Gregory
Lt. Col.,
USAF, Ret.
Mountain Home,
ID
Air Force
Public Affairs
Alumni
Association,
life member
Member, North
American
Butterfly
Association
Ken Miracle chukar28@…
208-570-2780
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as
coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
Thanks Cliff for the info. on intermediate morph … do they not get called dark morph until they get to the really dark level of the Harlan’s with the white tipped tail ?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 4:18 PM, Cliff Weisse <cliffandlisa@…> wrote:
I don’t think this one is a House Sparrow ;-). It looks like an
intermediate morph Redtail based on rufous underparts and brown
belly streaking.
Cliff
On 1/10/21 3:54 PM, M Gregory wrote:
Saw many buteos this morning
in rural Elmore County. I hope I have the ID right on this
bird: Ferruginous Hawk
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Alan C Gregory
Lt. Col.,
USAF, Ret.
Mountain Home,
ID
Air Force
Public Affairs
Alumni
Association,
life member
Member, North
American
Butterfly
Association
Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
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