DIL Corinne took a picture of this beautiful hawk recently. There was a pair, but one flew off before she could get a picture. I think it might be a red-shouldered hawk, but I could be wrong. Corinne thinks it is a broad-winged hawk. There is a link below if you want to explore further. Two hawks seen together could also be a parent and an offspring? Who knows?
When I walk, I pass two water retention ponds, and they team with birds. I have often seen a pair of hawks here too, and on my last walk, one circled above me and cried as it…hunted? The call is distinctive–a shrill kind of “whee.”
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-shouldered_Hawk/id
This pond is on school property, is fenced, and is full of Canadian geese. But along the side you can see a big heron ( a Great Blue?) and a Snowy Egret. In the water, a cormorant swims. Often, outside the fence, a flock of White Ibis, with their distinctive long curved beaks, gather to fleece the grass for bugs.
The woods to the right are both firm and wet lands–and are the buffer between these two schools and my neighborhood. A buffer for now anyway–this land could get developed.
I’ve begun to wonder if, when the geese mate and raise babies, how they will “walk their broods to water,” given the fence.
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