This is beyond a doubt a red tailed hawk and not a great horned owl. I know this because I made several other photos of this critter as a part of a series of images from that afternoon. P.S. this is a juvenile RTH, check out the banding on it's tail. (ps he's wet and drying off from a bath). Tree on a hill in a ravine valley inside High Park, I'm on another hill further away and slightly higher up 200 metres away, and happy as I can be while observing a red tailed hawk pair (yes there's another one nearby in another tree outside the frame.). The legs are bare and yellow, which helps rule out other species like Rough-legged or Ferruginous hawks which have feathered legs. The eyes appear pale, which is typical of a juvenile bird. There are no "ear tufts," which distinguishes it from many common owl species like the Great Horned Owl. Juvenile Red-tailed Hawks lack the distinctive reddish-brown tail of adults.
Juvenile red tailed hawk keeping a watchful eye over the west ravine near the Grenadier Pond in High Park - Toronto.πΏπ¦
He's not just a bird, he's a raptor!πͺΆ
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