Juvenile bald eagle, overlooking 'our' soy + cornfields, river and creek. OR red tailed hawk. [View all]

[elleng]

so even tho ospreys have flown south, I'm not totally devastated.







OR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_hawk

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/birds/red-tailed-hawk.htm

"Juvenile red-tailed hawks have a brown tail," he explains, "until they molt their tail feathers roughly one year after birth."