Hey there!
These aren’t the sharpest photos, but I must admit both Nutmeg and I had to run for cover and were shaking more than a little when we nearly bounded into the path of this hawk on the golf course.
Question is, what kind of hawk is it? Can any of you humans make out the markings well enough you have a better guess than we do? (Yes, we’re also admitting this is a mystery for us!)
I’ll check back in later to see what guesses you have!
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Well folks, we don’t have a firm identification on this one. Our best guess is the bird is a Northern Harrier. We studied Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology page on the Northern Harrier and like the match of the V-shped wings as it glides and the black wingtips. There is a hint of a white rump patch in the flight photos. Possibly this bird was a juvenile and didn’t have all his white feathers there? The male Northern Harrier does have a white underside.
Thanks for playing along!
the squirrel nutwork 
That sure looks like a red tail. Was it big enough for that? Yea, hide from those notorious squirrel hunters!
The one ‘wings down’ photo shows the tail the best, and it doesn’t appear too reddish… So we kind of think it’s not, though it was that size. Yeah, big enough to grab one of us. *shiver*
Hickory
They like rabbits better here…..more meat per catch. Maybe there are enough rabbits there to keep them happy. 🙂
Well, it is a golf course. Lots of grass. We see rabbits and deer. And geese, of course.
I’ve been seeing lots of hawks around here lately, though I’m terrible at identifying them. I knew we had red-tailed, sharp-shinned, and Cooper’s in southwest Ohio area, though I just read that we have fourteen total species of raptors (including the bald eagle)! Anyway, this certainly doesn’t constitute a guess. Sorry. 🙂 Be safe, little ones!
But it was fun information! Ohio isn’t too far from us to be different. Thanks for leaping by. Hickory