Revisting Raptor Ridge

I headed out right before sunset for a break from the screens. We’d seen so much while walking on Sunday, so I went to the same spot. Not more than 1.25 miles from our house I was turning onto Hyland Valley Rd. and saw this red-tailed hawk. I was able to pull over for these:

Less than 0.5 miles down the road I saw another:

Still making my way to the parking spot, I saw two different hawks (that’s 4 in about 4 minutes!) sitting together in the same tree. The crows had bothered one away by the time I was able to walk back, but I caught one being pestered before it flew off.

With high curiosity, I crossed the road back to where we’d been two nights earlier. I was losing light, but enjoying the environment.

You may remember the gallery of what we think is a Northern Harrier discussed in this post. Before we captured those two images of it in flight, we’d seen a bird on this post. Peter later wondered if it had been the Harrier before we saw it in the air. It was back again this night!