{"id":662,"date":"2013-01-10T16:28:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T21:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/?p=662"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:26:41","slug":"hawk-sitting-tree-streetlight-power-pole-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/hawk-sitting-tree-streetlight-power-pole-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kind of Hawk was Sitting on a Tree, Light Pole, Power Pole or Fence beside the Road?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the road was in Ontario, chances are good the large hawk you just saw sitting on a branch of a tree beside the road was a Red-tailed Hawk. Ditto if it was perched on top of a streetlight, power pole, telephone pole or fence post.<\/p>\n

\"Juvenile<\/a>
\nPhoto of juvenile red tailed hawk beside Winston Churchill south of the Lakeshore in Oakville, Ontario.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Frankly, the most common kind of hawk to see near a road in southern Ontario is a Red-tailed. They are even common in many other provinces and states.<\/p>\n

Look for the Belly Band to Identify a Red Tailed Hawk from the Front<\/h2>\n

It’s not easy to see the red tail on many Red Tailed Hawks. From the front, the tail often looks greyish and stripy.<\/p>\n

A good feature to look for is a broad stripe of darker feathers going sideways across the chest about a third of the way down between the head and the legs.<\/p>\n

Yellow Eyes Means I’m a Young Hawk<\/h2>\n

As I mentioned in an earlier Focus, What Kind of Hawk was Perched beside the 401, 403, 404, 407, 427 or QEW?<\/strong><\/a> you can tell young Red-tailed hawks by the pale yellow eyes. (Or at least that’s what Adele Moore says.)<\/p>\n

Join In<\/strong>
\nHave you been counting red tails this winter? Is there a place near you where they usually perch? Please share your experiences with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clues to look for when trying to identify a large hawk perched near a road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[25,41,218],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus","tag-birds","tag-hawks","tag-red-tailed-hawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9635,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/9635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}