soaring bird ID

[Rachel Boddie]

While walking in Cumberland today my spouse and saw a large soaring bird with a floppy flapping style.  

It sure looked like an osprey but that is impossible.

Any ideas what else it could have been? our closest guess is rough-legged hawk.

[Jill]

Immature Bald Eagle?

On Feb 13, 2021, at 6:19 PM, Rachel Boddie <rachel....@gmail.com> wrote:

While walking in Cumberland today my spouse and saw a large soaring bird with a floppy flapping style.  

It sure looked like an osprey but that is impossible.

Any ideas what else it could have been? our closest guess is rough-legged hawk.

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[Joanne Stevens]

Turkey Vultures are on the move.  I saw 4 today northwest of Scarborough Marsh.  You could call their flapping style floppy.

Joanne

[Barry Woods]

The easiest way to identify a turkey vulture ("TV") while flying at a distance is to note if its wings are held in a "V". Birds of prey soar with wings kept straight. Ospreys need fish so it's a few more months before we see herring start to move (May) into the coastal estuaries. TV's are more common these days, perhaps owing to road kill(?)