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Anyone here a bird expert? I saw a bird in our yard I had never seen before this week. He was very large like a hawk or falcon, small elegant chiseled head, very pale golden belly, and the feathers were black with blue. I went to try and get a better look but he started this extremely high pitched screeching sound, and frankly I got scared and ran for the porch. Shortly after he flew away. I saw him again today briefly flying past the window. That is one big bird. I've googled my fingers off but haven't found anything remotely resembling him.

ive seen bald eagles, ducks, geese (now coming south), hawks and other eagles. other than that i dont know.

It was a hawk. Did it look like this?

Or it could have been an Osprey. They are huge birds that are very high pitched if they feel threatened.

I saw images of the red shouldered hawk and osprey but they weren't the bird I saw.

Then you were perfectly allowed to run to your porch. lol. Because I would have been scared too.

Hmmm....an eagle does not have white feathers on head or tail until they are 5 years old....but, you say it was more the size of a hawk?

Both an eagle and a hawk do make that high pitched screaching sound. Perhaps the "blue" feathers were a reflection...sometimes this does happen!......p



(p.s......try googling "juvenile florida eagle"....several photos will come up)

Try googling on "falcon" or "gyrfalcon" as well.

It sounds like a hawk to me....we have SOOOOOOOOOO many of them up here at this elevation, our field mice problem this time of year goes away thanks to them!

Swainson's hawk dark morph?