FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Ferruginous not - Rough-legged Hawk YES

[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

Jan. 11, 2005
Tunica Co. MS
 
I wanted to check out the Ferruginous that was reported at Bowdre and  
Hambrick Road off Highway 61 on Sunday. I'm trying to keep track of the bird to 
 
record its departure date.
As I pulled off of Highway 61 onto Bowdre, I stopped and scanned for  
raptors. Over toward where Bowdre meets Hambrick Road, I saw a raptor kiting  
that 
showed a white rump. I thought, well the bird is still around. As I got  closer 
I noted that the bird was showing no white in the upper wing. The bird  
wheeled and I saw the wide dark belly band and the dark carpal squares of a  
Rough-legged Hawk!
 
I was able to drive almost up under the bird as it was facing south and  
could not see me approach. When it did see me, it turned and flew down the road 
 
and perched in a short bush that lined the ditch. When I pulled out on to  
Hambrick the bird turned and flew over me and landed on a telephone pole. I  
turned the truck around down the road and the bird was spooked by another car  
and 
started hunting over the field south of Hambrick. 
 
I went to Buck Island Road and searched the area but could not find the  
Ferruginous, I'm wondering if this adult, female light morph Rough-legged Hawks 
 
has now replaced our Ferruginous? I did not relocate the Rough-legged Hawk. 
This  may be the same bird that Mark, Mike and I had seen late Saturday perched 
in a  low bush in the same location but we were on Buck Island Road, too 
distant to  make it out as a Rough-legged Hawk. We passed the bird off as the 
Red-tail in  the area that sports a dark belly band.
 
This bird shows a wide black band on the tail, little or no noticeable  white 
in the upper wing, a pale caramel coloration to the head, upper chest and  
underwing coverts that are streaked dark brown plus it has a very dark,  
complete belly band.  
Good  Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett,  TN



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