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Goshawk
- To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Goshawk
- From: "Carleton Wood" <egardens@inteliport.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:34:50 -0500
- Cc: <piephofft@aol.com>
- Importance: Normal
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
WOW!!!What luck!
I just stumbled across a Goshawk here in the Elizabethan Gardens! It was an
adult, too! Dark gray with a pale gray breast and belly with fine horizontal
gray streaking. Uneven tail bands. Dark gray crown. White supercilium,
however it did not extend very far back beyond the eye. The bird was making
a strange sound which is what brought it to my attention. It was in some
really dense vegetation, however, I got two real good looks, one time the
bird was on an oak branch about 30 feet away and once it was perched on a
log that was on the ground only about 20 feet away! We have a tremendous
population of gray squirrels here in the gardens; maybe the bird will stick
around! Come to think of it, twice yesterday something really had them
upset. It could have been this bird!
Well, I've got to get back out and look for it again, I'm supposed to leave
at 3:00 and will be gone for the weekend. Keith Watson is also going to try
to relocate it!
Oh, for the record, it was actually across the fence from the gardens on
the Fort Raleigh side which is the east or southeast side of the gardens.
Jeff Lewis
Manteo, NC