This post is a random collection of some of the raptors I saw from Hawk Hill the other weekend.
This isn’t a great photograph but I kept it and am including it because the bird on the bottom/right is the first broad-winged hawk I have ever seen in the wild. Interestingly, though, the first raptor I ever held on the fist was a broad-wing, back at the Raptor Conservancy of Virginia. That education bird is actually the only other broad-wing I’ve seen. So my day on Hawk Hill was a success! (The bird on the top/left is a red tailed hawk.)
Juvenile red-tailed hawk, or as the GGRO hawk watchers say, “juve tail”.
A dark morph red tailed hawk sat on a rock really quite close to the hill for several minutes, to everyone’s delight.
A Cooper’s hawk (“Coop”) in flight.
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