Hi all
Late Tuesday(Jan.31) afternoon while driving east on King Side-road just
a couple
of Kms. west of Bolton a Black dark-morph Rough-legged Hawk, most likely a
male, flew low over my vehicle from one field into another. I pulled
over to
observe it as it landed in a tree. It was striking how black it was. As
I scanned
further up the fields I noticed 2 other hawks perched in different trees
along
the same treeline. 1 was a Red-tailed Hawk and the other was (from I could
make out) a female Northern Harrier- long tail and very brown all over
on the
front. About 1 km. further east along the road sat another Red-tailed Hawk
on a hydro pole along the road edge. Total of 4 hawks within a short
distance
of each other.
Elsewhere I have noticed that Red-tailed hawks are beginning to pair off.
Yesterday afternoon I observed what I believe was a Merlin flying over
Snowball,
near Aurora.
Good birding,
Sigi
Aurora, ON
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