ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK - Newport. ME

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rob speirs

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Mar 13, 2012, 8:30:21 PM3/13/12

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Hello All,

Couldn't resist posting these pics.

Caught sight of this guy just south of the northernmost Newport exit, screaming back from a round trip to Bangor, today. Pale head and breast, dark apron and excessive white undertail coverts could only be one thing...SO, jumped off at the next exit and went back in a 360 to find it still perched on a snag, in the marsh, along meandering McIntyre Brook. Had time to snap two pics on the perch and "dumb lucked it" with another pic post launch. Beautiful bird. Judging by the the lack of a primary extensions, pale lightly streaked breast, exceedingly black apron, and a shadow of the beginnings of a dark diagonal slash below the eye, suggest juvenile male.

Someone, I believe Craig, posted seeing two RLHA yesterday in Litchfield and Newport. No doubt this is the Newport bird. Thanks for the heads-up

Perched---> http://www.flickr.com/photos/45641961@N02/6980594997/in/photostream/

Aloft---------> http://www.flickr.com/photos/45641961@N02/6980595111/in/photostream/ Exceedingly white underwings and prominent dark carpal patches also suggest Juvenile Male