Bird Identification: CLOSED: Can Anyone Tell Me What Type of Hawk This Is?, 1 by BowFromMI

BowFromMI wrote:
Just for the record, I have attached a picture from
http://sdakotabirds.com/species_photos/raptors/red_tailed_ha...
that looks just like the hawk I'm dealing with... the photographer identified it as a red-tailed hawk, and I'm sure he, as well as you folks, know much better than I do. I never would have figured a red-tailed hawk could be so white, have white in the face, no red tail feathers, etc etc...

I just got rid of our rabbits... to much wildlife around me to have to worry about keeping something I was keeping caged... cleaning cages, worrying about food and water, etc... I throw some food to the chickens, ducks, fish, etc everyday, but just for the fun of it and not because I have to. You'll enjoy the chickens also... they'll follow you around just like ducks... it's a pain trying to keep them alive though, seems like they are every things list of favorite snacks... I've lost more than I can count, always battling something. I even started locking them in my barn and had something ( a fox I presume) dig a tunnel over night down under the wall of the barn, went in and killed a bunch and drug them out thru the tunnel and left them all over my yard (I probably scared him off in the middle of his feast)... pretty upsetting. If it's not dealing with something that wants to kill them, it's the skunks and possums and everything else that will do anything to get in to get their eggs... I had a big coyote and a skunk both hanging around the barn last night when I went out to close them in and had to chase both away... It's just a good thing they reproduce so fast and easy... one hen just hatched a dozen babies, and another is now sitting on a nest of two dozen eggs, so will have a bunch more soon. I do my best to protect them, but it's inevitable that something around here will get at least half of them sooner or later...

I have never gotten any duck eggs for some reason (the ducks are about a year and a half old). Something else is probably finding their eggs before I do. I do see eggs laying out in the pond under several feet of water... I figure the ducks are just too stupid, and swim around thinking they have to fart, and then all of a sudden it's 'oops, darn, lost another...'