[texbirds] Juv Zone-tailed Hawk at Frontera Audubon in Weslaco photographed on perch today
- From: SeEtta Moss <seettam@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:41:50 -0600
I found the juvenile Zone-tailed Hawk perched this morning at Frontera but
it was gone when I drove by after birding a little at Estero Llano Grande
SP. With the cold and rainy weather lots of the Turkey Vultures with which
this species associates were also coming in to perch at least for a period
of time. This time it was in a deciduous tree that still has leaves on it
(and low light and rain added to photo problems) so my photos are not as
good as on some prior occasions though diagnostic for species and age. I
have uploaded those photos onto my Birds and Nature
blog.<http://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/>
I forgot to on my post last night that I was not surprised to find the
adult Zone-tailed because, as I noted in some post a while back, I had seen
an adult Zone-tailed Hawk flying less than a hundred feet off the ground at
Frontera on Dec 22 which is 5 days before I found the juvenile. It just
seemed like a good possibility that if an adult had been flying low at
Frontera, and a juvenile was roosting there, that the adult might be
roosting there too. However, it still seems unusual that a juvenile hawk
is still being in such relatively close association with an adult so late
in it's first winter. Birds of North America online just says there is
little information about immature stage.
SeEtta Moss
Colorado birder staying in Pharr
Personal blog @
http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com<http://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/>
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