Birders,
Sonia Santa Anna and I paid a late afternoon visit to Montressor Road
yesterday. Red-tails, some very dark, were everywhere, like sentries. We saw
two Rough-legged Hawks, one light morph perched in a bare tree, and a stunning
dark morph that rose up from a distant rise and soared before perching.
Northern Harriers were swooping over the fields, and one danced on its prey out
in the grass. A Kestrel perched on top of the silo. Red-winged Blackbirds
chattered along the road. As we stood by the fence in the fading daylight, it
was possible to hear the voles and mice scurrying in the brush all around us.
Made me a bit sad, though, to think of these magnificent birds losing their
hunting grounds to what looked to be future housing developments demarcated
with ribbons and signs.
Linda Millington
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