Red-shouldered Hawk - Thomas Schultz
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Date

Location

5008 Sugar Loaf Road, Green Lake, Wisconsin, US (43.812, -89.047)
Green Lake, Wisconsin, United States
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Map
Map Coordinates: 43.8117524, -89.0473191
Age and sex
Adult, Unknown sex - X

Observation details

Took photos. Tail very black on top, with several narrow white bands. Wings had large reddish patches on top portion as it flew. Breast barred extensively with fairly fine rusty brown. Initially this hawk was perched in a tree right next to the road on the left as we approached, but then it soon flushed and flew across the road in front of us and disappeared in the trees. We'd had decent identifiable looks, but were hoping for a more extended view. I decided to play a Red-shouldered Hawk call on my speaker, and it flew in and perched briefly a fairly close range. Unfortunately it left before I was able to take photos, but eventually it circled around and perched in a distant tree -- where I was able to get this long-range (heavily cropped) photos.

Technical information

Model
Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
ISO
100
Focal length
247 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire, auto
f-stop
f/6.5
Shutter speed
1/400 sec
Dimensions
960 pixels x 720 pixels
Original file size
256.93 KB