Hey Pete, just thought you would like to see this. Its from the Audibon Society.


The November Bird Sightings Report has been put to bed so to speak. There were many comments on the identity of the hawk photographed by Jim Rogers. Most of them centered around the bird being a Rough-legged Hawk. I sent an email to hawk expert Brian Wheeler and this is what he said, "The bird looks like an adult dark Red-tailed Hawk, and a very dark one at that. The white forehead, or at least what appears to be such is misleading, almost Rough-legged Hawk like but tail is redtail. Wing shape on one image looks more Rough-legged, too. Wing markings and tail markings make it redtail, however.