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Red-tailed hawks are carnivores, their diet varying with the location and the season. They eat small mammals including voles, rats, ground squirrels and rabbits, birds, and reptiles, especially snakes, bats, frogs, toads, and insects. They may feed on carrion ocassionally.
(This time a Grey Squirrel was selected from the menu)
Red-tailed hawks have an important part to play in local ecosystems by controlling populations of small mammals, such as rodents and rabbits. They benefit farmers by eating moles, mice and other rodents that threaten crops. They also provide habitat for several small bird species, such as house sparrows that live alongside hawks in their nests.
Caught this young Red-tailed Hawk scanning the field for voles and anything else he could chase and eat.
Nice look at the Belly Band and dark Patagial Bars on the underside of this Red-tailed Hawk. Two good fieldmarks when you can't see a Red-tailed Hawk's red tail.
San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, USA
We see so many plumage variations that it is a treat to see one that looks like the field guide.
Light adult Western Red-tailed Hawk
Peola Road, Asotin County, Washington, USA
New Haven, CT...
After just missing a gray squirrel, this young red-tail watches its intended prey scurry up a nearby tree.
2 months ago I found this Leucistic Red Tailed Hawk near my home town of Morgan Hill - California.
It hung around a few weeks before a lightning storm came through and pushed it to a different location.
It was was cool to spend some time watching this beautiful Buteo and getting to share it with Beth, Tom and James.
This Red-tailed Hawk was very interested in the folks passing by on the path below. I was just getting ready to add some exposure compensation to try to open the deep shadows when the hawk took off for a less busy avenue.
Red tailed hawk perched on that huge rock outcropping between the north and south bound lanes of the 101 freeway in Pismo Beach. This is the usual home of the peregrine falcons but he claimed that perch most of the day.
Red-tailed Hawk (juvenile)
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Seen one circling near the house twice in the past weeks and finally got lucky when it passed right overhead.
I spotted this creature just above the dunes north of the Cloisters. It had just flown in, chased by an assortment of smaller birds. The small tormentors flew off fairly quickly once the Hawk had landed. Then, for a quite extended time, it just sat there, as if resting, or feeling the warmth of the sun. To me, anthropomorphizing, it just seemed like it was almost meditating for a bit.. .. probably on how tasty the squirrels in the ice plant might taste.