Tuesday- today I saw a black hawk, a totally melanistic buteo, on a lamp-post at the 77th Street entrance to Hwy 100 in Edina. The interesting thing is that I found this hawk at this location just over three months ago being harrassed by crows. At the time I figured it was a Rough-legged Hawk, given the relative abundance of that color morph, but finding it sitting on the lamppost makes me suspect that it might actually be a much rarer dark morph Red-tailed. It seems I only find this hawk when negotiating traffic in evening rush hour.
Steve Weston on Quigley Lake in Eagan swest...@comcast.net
