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[telophase]

A hawk stooped across the road in front of me this morning, landing on the field to my right and on, I assume, some sort of unfortunate rodent.

Didn't get a good look at it as I was doing that whole "driving" thing, but it seemed large so it might have been a red-shouldered hawk, but OTOH that could just be me exaggerating the size in my mind's eye and it was probably a redtail, what I think is the most common hawk around here.

(ETA: Probably red-tailed, see DW comments.)

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[loligo]

Red-shouldered hawks are actually smaller than red-tails. Are you thinking of the ferruginous hawk instead? They're the largest hawk in the US. (Red-shoulders are woodland hawks, and ferruginous like open country, if that helps narrow it down....)

[telophase]

Huh -- my memory has the red-shouldered hawk that hung out next to our house for a couple of days a few years back as OMG HUGE (Not as huge as the two turkey vultures that staked out the back porch for a couple of weeks, though...), and red-tails as smaller then them. Ah, well!

Probably a red-tail then, as I think they're the bog-standard hawk around here.