Monday, January 14, 2013

Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
with prey


    A few days ago my wife and I were driving around the side roads of Wellesley Township and came across this Red-tailed Hawk consuming a rodent. Just a short time later we also saw an American Kestrel Falco sparverius tearing into a rodent on a fence post. Given the large numbers of wintering raptors in the area, including a substantial population of Rough-legged Hawk Buteo lagopus, and a few Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius, it appears that the biomass of rodent prey is high this year.
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David M. Gascoigne,
David M. Gascoigne,

I'm a life long birder. My interests are birds, nature, reading, books, outdoors, travel, food and wine.

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