Found a large feather - what did it come from?

[Wynette]

Found this large feather in my field the other day...close enough to my chicken run that it's important to know what it came from, I think. I'm in Michigan, and we do have wild turkey and hawk...owls...pheasant...I'm sure it's too big for a pheasant and doesn't seem the right color for a turkey, so it must be a hawk, but I'd like to confirm - it's almost 9 1/2" long and about 2 1/2" wide:

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

looks like it came from a red tailed hawk.

 

[Heidi]

Yep, looks like a red tailed hawk to me too... Good thing you have fencing on top of all your runs.

 

[LauraSBale]

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Maybe a hawk or owl?


My Hub just looked at to and he said the same thing red tail hawk, he said it looks like the tail feather

 

[Wynette]

Uh-oh. Hope he lost his feather because he got SCARED or something and went to find easier pickin's!

 

[LauraSBale]

we have been having 3 Turkey vulture flying around the last couple days,

they are just one scary looking bird

 

[Wynette]

TURKEY VULTURE? What the heck - I didn't know we had them around here! You got somethin' stinky in your field, Laura? JK!

Seriously, though, what do they look like? I'm going to go Google them.

 

[60ACRES]

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better know in these parts as a "buzzard".

 

[sparkles2307]

We have turkey vultures up here in MN too... ppl associate them with the desert, but they do pretty nicely on all the dead deer in the ditches around here!!!! So gross I might add, if my car wasnt so nice I would swerve to hit the buggers!

 

[Wynette]

Awe....I just saw a pic of one online...I feel sorry for them! Surely someone must think they're pretty! There are folks who think NNs are pretty....