Have had an interesting couple of months now that pair of
red-shouldered hawks are wintering in neighborhood. Unlike the occasional
sighting of any
species, this sort of prolonged opportunity enables learning of some of their
habits. The most obvious thing is that the two birds are highly vocal every
morning, just as sun is beginning to warm up their world.
For an hour or so both m. & f. squawk and call and generally raise
hell and fly about over half-square mile area around my house, which,
incidentally, is in a semi-rural part of Spotsylvania County.
The one other notable item has been the re-emergence of the purple
finches this year at my feeders; this after years of proliferating house
finches.
Paul Sullivan
