Date: 4/19/25 1:26 pm From: Ian MacGregor <00000489141846bd-dmarc-request...> Subject: My Neighborhood this Morniing
Headed out when the rain had just about stopped. Soon, I heard a couple of Wood Thrushes singing, and paused to listen, some White-throated Sparrows began to sing. Wood Thrushes announcing their arrival, the White-throateds perhaps dreaming of “Pure Sweet Canada.”
Just before the serenade, I picked up my first humming bird of the year. I now have feeders out, and have had one visit. For me. The highlight of the day were two Broad-winged Hawks flying low. I dad one perched on a telephone pole about a week earlier. I think they are on territory. I heard a P-See call for the first time.
I did have a hawk I could not identify. It, was somewhat long-tailed, suggesting an, Accipiter, but flew with steady markedly slow wingbeats, never gliding. I wondered if it was as some sort of display flight
It didn’t strike me as a harrier or kite. Size and shape was about that of a Cooper’s. The wings were not rounded. The tail looked too long for Red-shouldered.
I was so transfixed by how it was flying,, I did not notice any plumage details
