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gonzogolf wrote in post #19562635
I'm not a birder so much as a photographer who shoots birds when they are around. I was pretty sure it was just a red tailed hawk but I certainly could be wrong

Im pretty certain it's not an redtail has they havecan hooked beak and they are quite a large raptor. I could be wrong but i am pretty sure it's a saka. Hopefully somebody can put me right. Cracking shot tho

I'm pretty sure it's not a redtail has they have an hooked beak and are quite a large raptor. I may be wrong, but i'm sure its a saka, hopefully somebody can put me right. Cracking shot tho

Badds wrote in post #19562655
I'm pretty sure it's not a redtail has they have an hooked beak and are quite a large raptor. I may be wrong, but i'm sure its a saka, hopefully somebody can put me right. Cracking shot tho

Here is another angle

https://kevin-jones.smugmug.com/Othe​r/Pikes-Peak/i-mwVGc2J

I'm with gonzogolf here. It's certainly not a Saker falcon. The shape of the bird's head, beak, and the coloring pattern point to the red-tailed hawk. But the easiest way to clarify would be to know where the shot was made. The Saker falcon is an Old Word bird. In the wild, it lives in North Africa and Eurasia.The red-tailed hawk is a North American bird. So the two species cannot co-occur in the same area.

You are correct that the saka lives in a totally different region to the Redtail. What made me question what bird it is was the thing it's eating. Either that is a giant (what ever it is) or a very small redtail. I was looking at the feathers around the eye and the speckled chest.

Snowy Egret

Cog2020 wrote in post #19564065

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Common Greenshank?

Pippan wrote in post #19564082
Common Greenshank?

I think so.

A cormorant at the lake.

A sparrow with a caterpiller

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White Ibis among the snails.

TheShutterMonkey wrote in post #19570013

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2p9e​JV9 Northern Pygmy Owl with Dinner by Ken Cheng Photography, on Flickr

Great photo!