Hello All,
While returning home from Bear Creek Lake Park this morning, I
observed a Harlan's Hawk on the west side of C470 between Quincy and
Belleview . The bird perched on several telephone poles on the west
side of C470 before flying across the highway and landing in a grove
of cottonwoods on the east side. The bird was dark overall with a
small amount of white mottling on the lower breast. I didn't have a
good look at the tail, but it appeared whitish or pale gray. Wheeler
in his book "Raptors of Western North America" would call the bird a
dark intermediate morph Harlan's Hawk.
Last year there was a similar Harlan's hawk in the same location. My
records indicate I first saw it on 2-12-10. Although today is the 1st
day I have seen this hawk, my wife has been reporting to me she has
seen a dark hawk in this area several times in the last two weeks.
Mike Henwood
Morrison
Jefferson County
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