Ray Smith, and Ann and Fred Bogar saw twenty Rough-legged Hawks today, Sunday,
February 15, 2004, from 0930 to 1330, from the Greenway, around Leesburg 0n US
Route 15, and in the farmlands north and south of Lucketts, Virginia, including
Montresor Road. In addition, we saw four Northern Harriers and six American
Kestrels.
Does the large population of Rough-legged Hawks inhibit the other raptors? The
only other raptors we saw other than Kestrels and Harriers were two Red-tailed
Hawks on the Greenway just outside of Reston near Route 722.
The twenty seven species seen today were
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Northern Harrier
American Kestrel
Killdeer
Ringed-billed Gull
Rock Dove
Morning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
American Crow
White-breasted Nuthatch
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
American Goldfinch
Ginnea Hen
Emu
Fred Bogar
fbogaratcoxdotnet
Alexandria, VA
703-768-3793
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