Yep that sounds like a Harris’s Hawk. They have been known to hunt mammals
a foot. Usually in family groups. You rarely see them soaring. Had a juvi
same spot few weeks back.
Drew
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 3:46 PM Jordan Cochran <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
We followed Jim’s and Peter’s reports and found the Townsend’s warbler andDrew Harvey
rose breasted grosbeak at TTUHSC, then a Harris’s hawk north of 4th St on
Quaker where it curves and runs into Texas Tech Parkway. We drove those
roads a few times before we found it. It seems to be perching on the ground
or in the mesquite, because it flew up, circled around, and flew back down
and we couldn’t find it after that. There are also a lot of dark morph and
light morph red tails in that area.
-Whitney and Jordan Cochran
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