I was trimming shrubs early yesterday morning. Birds were singing, then the
Blue Jays started sqwaking and it became dead quiet.
I looked up and there were between 35-40 Hawks migrating south, high up on the thermals, just circiling in 100yd circles without moving their wings just riding the NW wind. Too far up to identify them, but one of the coolest things I've seen.
Nature is unbelievable.It was quiet for a long time afterwards.
I had never seen it before either Rav, but there they were just
like I said. Wished I could of identified them, but they were way
up there. They looked to be about Redtailed size.
No they were not turkey buzzards for sure.
A couplke of years back we had a massive crow roosting migration pass by our house. the trees were bare, except for the hundreds and hundreds of crows perched in them.
They would pass in waves, cawing loudly as each wave passsed.
There were probably well over a thousand in all.
Reminded me of the movie "The Birds".
The crows still pass by our house as part of thier seasonal migration, but nothing like that one time.
Whatever migratory bird that flys in groups has to start the journrey
somewhere. I wonder where they all meet to start the flight or do they
just pick up hitchhikers a few at a time?
I looked up some info on Hawk Migration and it is not uncommon
to see what they call a "Kettle", which is a group of Hawks migrating by
circiling tightly on an air thermal.
Some types of Hawks migrate as far South as Peru.
Found out some more info from a guy who counts migrating Hawks.
He told me these Kettles can be as large as 100 to 1000 Hawks. He said
there hasn't been enough Nortwest winds yet to push down the broad wing
migrators in really large numbers , but they will come,followed by the
smaller Kestrel hawks etc. and lastly the Golden and Bald Eagles.
I found 4 Hawk Watch areas and hope to take my Grandsons to see them
the next time we get a nice clear NW wind day.
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