Hey, there! Log in / Register
Enraptored by a Back Bay alley
By adamg on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 11:29am
Bristol Whitcher took a couple photos of this raptor (can anybody tell what kind?) scootching along the railing of a fire escape in an alley between Boylston and Newbury this morning.
Neighborhoods:
Ad:
Support Universal Hub
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
Comments
don't dare venture a guess
No matter what I say - (cooper, red tail, sharp shinned) I'll be proven wrong!
I'll guess cooper given all the white in the plumage.
I thought it was two together - but that's actually the same bird in two photos?
Oh, sorry, just one bird
It's two photos of the same bird. I guess i should've made the black line between the photos wider.
corrected
but your correction beat me to it!
One bird...
...a clever girl.
She's a velociraptor.
This is the best.
This is the best.
Wrong
It's Cunningham's law, not Godwin's law, as any Nazi could tell you.
Proof
I think you just proved the point
I think that's the same bird in two photos
that just happen to look like a single photo side-by-side like that.
Yep
Text corrected to make up for my lack of photo-editing skills.
Red-tailed hawk
Red-tailed hawk. Cooper's have striped and much longer tail.
Still a red-tailed hawk.
Still a red-tailed hawk.
Juvenile or adult?
Looks like too much white for an adult. No horizontal stripes on the tail (which appears too short to be a cooper's perhaps) - so I'd agree -but a young one?
juvenile
I agree with the above poster...that's a red tail hawk, definitely a youngster. Probably looking for rats or pigeons :)
Raptor?
Paging Dr. Grant.
Paging Blondie
.
Adorable!
Not sure what kind of hawk
Not sure what kind of hawk that is, but do have fond memories of walking down lower Newbury by the Ritz in the late 90s, saw a bunch of people gathered, watching something. Stopped and looked over to see a hawk on second floor ledge tucking in to a nice pigeon lunch. Feathers flying, blood dripping. Good times.