Cooperative Hunting in Red-tailed Hawks?

Filed under: Chat — Chad February 18, 2006 @ 5:57 pm

Today while birding, Ryan and I observed two Red-tailed Hawks perched nearly on top of each other on the edge of a small patch of woods bordering a field. Our first comments on the sighting was jokes of “Red-tails in Love” and the comparison to the Harris’s Hawks we observed in the Rio Grande Valley […]

Signs of Spring?

Filed under: Bird Sightings — Chad February 18, 2006 @ 5:45 pm

Despite today’s high winds (35mph gusts) and frigid conditions due to a recent arctic air mass that moved over the area the last two days, signs of spring seem to be on the rise, albeit slow and unsteady. Two days ago a lone Turkey Vulture soared above a nearby highway, and today a single Killdeer called out […]