There were 2 hawks soaring over the house in New Paltz Tuesday mid morning. It had light primaries and light in the tail, dark otherwise. Flew with wings flat. The birds were high and mostly directly overhead, so watching was a stress. At the same time, we heard a clear whistle, 2-syllable descending call, in the manner of a Peewee, presumably from these hawks.
In appearance it could have been a dark-phase Rough-legged, but the calls to be heard on the Macaulay Library site don't match. GAT George A. Thompson Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
