After leaving Whittemore, I decided to see what was on Trolley Bed Road as I drove home. As I drove down Trolley Bed Road, I saw a hawk in the tree and a Great Blue Heron in the water. So I parked the car and got out to take a few pictures.
Besides some nice shots of the Heron, I also saw a Common Grackle (Big Year Bird) and heard/saw many Red-Winged Blackbirds.
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| Red-Shouldered Hawk |
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| Red-Shouldered Hawk |
On my way back down Trolley Bed Road, I decided to park
the car and take a few pictures of the hawk that I mentioned earlier.
Not being good at telling hawks apart, I thought the hawk was a
Red-Tailed Hawk which I have already on my Big Year list. But then the
hawk, took off and flew almost overhead so I was able to take a picture
of it and as I looked at it through the camera's eyepiece, I was certain
I was seeing a Red-Shouldered Hawk. When I got home, I compared the
picture I took with my newest bird book -
The Crossley Guide to Eastern Birds - and sure enough, it was a Red-Shouldered Hawk!
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| Red-Shouldered Hawk |
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| Song Sparrow |
DATA: 1:40-1:58pm; 51F; overcast
So now my Big Year totals are:
40) Common Grackle
41) Red-Shouldered Hawk
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