I read/have read a lot and spend a great deal of time in the outdoors. The computer has become a great tool for educating myself about what I see on my daily routines. I have seen redtails teaching their 'young of the year' how to hunt. I have seen a pair of redtails attacking a GHO in an...
The leucistic hawk is unusual indeed. For the first 15 or so years that we lived at our home a 50% white female redtail would winter in this area. She would spend a large part of each day in an ash tree across the road. Then several years ago a melanistic redtail wintered in the same area.