stephenstockton's Identifications

Large bird, white belly mostly light brown almost red looking body. Also saw one of these very similar looking in the Beaches Ravine a few weeks ago. Not sure the exact species of bird, perhaps a hawk of some kind? Or a falcon? Identified this by closely looking at the photo where you can see it’s red tail, also when I took the photo and it took flight I could see the red in its tail. It has a wingspan of up to 52 inches and a body which can grow up to be 22 inches and weigh up to 3 pounds (Lyman, 2020). This sounds like a red tailed hawk after doing research on the size of this bird as well as the colour of its tail.

-green with black stripes and yellow spots
-approximately the size of a pinky finger
-two found together eating the stems
-not disruptive
-googled caterpillars that feed on parsley to help identify

• warm hot day
• plants were watered that morning

• they were both eating the stems and leaves of the parsley
  -moved quite quickly

-small umbrella looking plants

• about 30 found in the same area
• vivid green colour
• held their form even with the rain
• cold, foggy, wet day
• approximately 5 inches tall
• appeared to have some type of leaf at the root
• no smell at all
• no visible animals and/ or insects in the vicinity