This Red-tailed Hawk circled overhead near a group of towering cottonwood trees. The mated pair were sitting in the trees not far from last year’s scruffy looking stick nest. When I got withinsixty feet they both went aloft circling. One giving calls. A sound of “tweeyouuu” as cold and thin as the air here at 4,000 feet.
The hawks were on Miller Island widlife reserve south of Klamath Falls.
Other birds seen on Miller Island Road: Canada and Whigte-fronted Geese, Bald Eagles (9), Rough-legged Hawk being pestered by a pair of Ravens, Black-billed Magpies, Red-winged Blackbirds, Lesser Goldfinches. And Kestrel:
Along the main highway, birds on a line. House Finches all.
Also this morning I found a Northern Shrike near Highway 140’s bridge across the Rogue River;
Those white specks are falling snow.
There was snow on the landscape after a couple hours of morning storm action:
