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["Mayhorn" <mayhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Area Birders,
Two Broad-winged Hawks did an aerial display over my yard today in spite of
or perhaps because of the gusty wind. They kept changing altitudes.
Sometimes they would come flying by practically at tree top level, then they
would go zooming off and be several hundred feet in the air. At other times
they would look as if they were just hanging there against the blue. A
couple of times they were so close that they disturbed the two pairs of yard
nesting Robins.
After watching for a few minutes I decided to go for the camera, but as it
nearly always happens they were gone when I came back out.
I also had a White-crowned Sparrow in my yard today, but attractive bird
that it is, it just couldn't compare with a pair of Broadwings playing on
the wind.

Roger Mayhorn
Grundy, VA
Buchanan County


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