Red-tail extravaganza

[olin...@earthlink.net]

Folks:

 

At mid-day yesterday there were more than 30 red-tailed hawks on the ground in a perennial grass field in the northeast quadrant of the intersection of 99W and Airlie/Suver Road.  They were feeding on something, possibly pocket gophers.  All that I could see clearly were juveniles.  They were joined by a handful of great blue herons and a few ravens.  In my many years of raptor observations I’ve never seen anything like this with red-tails.

 

Olin