Can anyone help me identify this Hawk/Falcon?

[asolano76]

I have lost some chickens and I know these aren't the best pics but he wont let me get any closer even at the closest zoom of my camera. I think under its wings and under tailed are striped.

 

[djmooney]

i googled it and i found that it looks allot like a young red tailed hawk. look for yourself on google. the pics look really similar. just google juvenile red taled hawk

 

[Farmer Brown]

what state are you in, some birds are regional.

 

[asolano76]

I'm in Frederick, MD......

 

[asolano76]

I've looked at so many pics on google...its so hard to tell. Was hoping someone that knows a little more than me could help.

 

[19hhbelgian]

I think it's a first year red tail. If it doesn't have the red underneath it's tail when it flies, then I would guess Kestrel which is a falcom (yep, that's howe it's spelled...Ask Hawk Mountain

) I think it's a subspecies of the falcon family.

 

[snewman]

I agree that it looks like a juvenile red-tailed hawk. They're pretty much everywhere, with some regional color variations. They're the ones incorrectly nick-named "chicken hawks". All birds of prey are protected by federal law, so don't shoot it!

 

[Attack Chicken]

Yup a young redtail.

 

[asolano76]

No intention to shoot it at all.....Just driving me crazy trying to figure out what it is. We put netting up and I think he can't get to the girls now but it still makes me crazy to know what it is.

 

[Attack Chicken]

CDs' hung on strings from things will help keep the hawk away. People said it has worked.