Simply Majestic

by Peggy Franz

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Simply Majestic

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Peggy Franz

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Photograph - Photography/landscape/wildlife/hawks

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Capture in my yard. I am just so lucky. Look out my front door and there he is !!
So majestic! This is a Red shoulder Hawk.Whether wheeling over a swamp forest or whistling plaintively from a riverine park, a Red-shouldered Hawk is typically a sign of tall woods and water. It�s one of our most distinctively marked common hawks, with barred reddish-peachy underparts and a strongly banded tail. In flight, translucent crescents near the wingtips help to identify the species at a distance. These forest hawks hunt prey ranging from mice to frogs and snakes. They Red-shouldered Hawks return to the same nesting territory year after year. So we are blessed to see them all the time. We know their call to one another. They also mate for life.Red-shouldered Hawks often reuse nests from past years. Scientists don�t know which sex originally selects the nest site, although the male typically arrives back at the nest site first and defends the territory until the female arrives. They typically place their nests in a broad-leaved tree (occasionally in a conifer), below the forest canopy but toward the tree top, usually in the crotch of the main trunk. Nest trees are often near a pond, stream, or swamp, and can be in suburban neighborhoods or parks.

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February 2nd, 2013

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