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Location Murphy Rd, Tecumseh
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Owner Jerome Jourdan

Effort

Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  1
  • Distance:  12 mi

Checklist Comments

Yesterday Jeff Schultz reported seeing a whopping 39 Rough-legged Hawks in the Clinton/Tecumseh area of Lenawee Co., MI. So today I decided to run down and look for photo opportunities. Unfortunately, at 7 am the skies did not clear as predicted. Just the opposite: it was dark, cloudy and with snow flurries. So I drove the roads and looked for the hawks. I did not fare as well as Jeff (he would report 23 RLH's today) and only found a dozen Rough-legged Hawks and 6 Red-tailed Hawks

Totals

6
Species Observed
132 individuals
1
Species with Photos

Observations

  1. Red-tailed Hawk

    Number observed:  6

  2. Rough-legged Hawk

    Number observed:  12

    Details

    Most were far out, and digiscoping was difficult. My only consolation was a nice Dark Morph Rough-legged Hawk that perched near Kehoe Rd. I managed to get a couple digiscoped images and a short video of it from the side of the road before it took off and flew overhead. Twice it did this from two different locations, and luckily I was able to capture it in flight the second time. Examining the photos you can see a very small, slender beak that separates it from a dark Red-tailed Hawk (which also has more white spotting in the wings and chest).

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  3. Pileated Woodpecker

    Number observed:  1

  4. American Crow

    Number observed:  12

  5. Horned Lark

    Number observed:  1

  6. Snow Bunting

    Number observed:  100

    Details

    in field with Horned Larks. Several hundred birds total

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