This is a photo of the bird on the ground.

Compare the Swainson's Hawk from the Cornell Ornithological Lab's website.

"Swainson's hawk breeds on the open grasslands across the western half of North America and winters mainly on the pampas of South America. Its annual round-trip migration of up to 17,000 miles makes it one of the truly long-distance avian commuters. It ranges throughout Texas duaring these spring anf dall migration flights, but it is most common in the western half of the state." (John L. Tveten's The Birds of Texas, p.158)

Photo taken by my son using a cellphone.

October 8, 2025.