New yard bird.

[Paul Devaney]

Hearing “Kek, kek, kek.” made me gaze up and across the street from my front sidewalk at 10:40 this morning. A large raptor glided into the top of a tall deciduous tree and perched among the branches. Other movements near it made me think there was a pair of Cooper’s Hawks. More “kek kek” and flight from that spot led me to conclude a woodpecker’s flight while showing large white patches under the wings. The raptor eventually flew over me revealing it to be a Red-tailed. It had disturbed a pair of Pileated woodpeckers thus their calling and moving around the trees one clinging to a trunk, the other up in the thin branches. All eventually moved on leaving 16 turkeys in my yard. 

Paul Devaney

Winchester