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

Chillybean wrote:
Yes, ducks seem to lay their eggs any ol' place. When we had several, we'd have to hunt all over the coop to find them. They got into the habit of laying in the mornings, so this made it easy. They stopped laying consistently in 2012 sometime, but we'd find a surprise now and again. And they had no schedule whatsoever.

Look at our Khaki Campbell. She was just about to lay an egg after her sister did. This was late afternoon. We had such a laugh over this.

The tunnel digging sounds like a weasel. Maybe? They tend to kill a bunch, but not eat everything. They prefer rats, but when rats are scarce, they find other things. Someone told me that they had a weasel get their chickens but hid them within the walls of their coop. I think foxes would eat what they kill.?? I am not an expert in this, but vaguely remember a tid bit here and there.

Oh, here is a Red-tailed Hawk. If it was not part of a HawkWatch presentation, I would not have ever guessed because it does not have the "belly band". This is an old one, about 24 years old.