After a busy morning I paid a visit to the Hawk Watch at Lake Erie Metropark (LEMP). As I arrived I was greeted with reports of how great the morning had been with Golden Eagles, Rough-Legged Hawks, Red-Shouldered Hawks and many Red-tailed Hawks all making appearance. The clear skies that dominated in the morning gave way to mostly cloudy skies that I was accused of bringing. In the three hours that I was there I saw quite a few birds but not the coveted Goldens or Roughies.
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| Young Red-Tailed |
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| Comparison of Red-tailed (left) and Red-shouldered (right) |
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| Young Red-Shouldered |
Among the many Red-tailed that I saw was a rare Dark-morph pictured below
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| Heavily cropped photo showing Dark-morph Red-tailed Hawk |
As the cloud cover thickened around 4pm I pointed to the broken clouds to the northwest and joked to Pat Mulawa and Greg Smith "Looks like it's sunny at my house". Since the hawk activity had died down I headed home and was indeed met with blue skies above my neighborhood. Not only that but at 5:10 pm I had this bird fly over the yard.
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| Rough-legged Hawk |
It was the the first Roughie I have seen this fall and only the second one I've ever seen from my yard.
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