Showing posts with label spring migration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring migration. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Spring, no gulls. Braddock Bay hawkwatch


Northern Goshawk. This came very late in the day away from the Braddock Bay hawkwatch. I was on my way home, but kept seeing vultures pass overhead forcing me to stop and scan, panicking at the thought of catching up on real-life stuff away from birds. I was squinting at this bird at the same time the rest of the group was down the road, without my knowledge. It was very distant and I was trying to turn it into a goshawk waiting for it to get closer. I received a call from Luke Tiller asking where I was. He said they were on a goshawk, and I told him I was probably looking at the same bird on the same road as them. I drove around the bend and saw the group where the bird eventually flew right over us--although at a migration-type elevation not wanting to mug for the camera.   



Northern Harrier 

                                   

Red-shouldered Hawk 


More Northern Shrike