The other evening Debby showed me a hawk-in-flight photo that she’d snapped out
of the car window, on December 11, but hadn’t really looked at. Flickr link
follows.
When we zoomed in, we realized that it’s a Harlan’s Hawk (flying low over the
weedy field). It’s the in-flight photo I’d been wishing for, but this is not
the same streak-breasted Harlan’s that I photographed nearer to home in
November. This bird looks uniformly dark brown, except for the underwing
primaries. This spot is within 1/4 mile of the field where we repeatedly saw a
dark hawk, about a year ago, that we were unable to identify. It’s about 2.5
miles NW of Schochoh, near Whippoorwill Creek, along Hall’s Store Road.
https://flic.kr/p/DfYeN6
Stephen Tyson, Schochoh, Logan Co. , KY
