Showing posts with label Upper Peninsula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Upper Peninsula. Show all posts

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Up Close and Personal: Broad-winged Hawk

By Cory Ritter

It seems that Broad-winged Hawks are often seen in distant kettles, and are just specks to the naked-eye. Well, that isn't the case when you're trapping them. There are some private trappers (not affiliated with WPBO) around here at Whitefish Point, and they're kind enough to bring raptors up to the platform every now and then. The broadwings really started kicking into gear just earlier this month up here in the U.P., and on one of those days, one of the trappers, Bill, was lucky enough to catch two broadwings in his set at once--and nice enough to bring them up for me to take a look.
adult Broad-winged Hawk, in the hand, Paradise, MI
adult Broad-winged Hawk, in the hand, Paradise, MI
banded tail of an adult Broad-winged Hawk, Paradise, MI
adult Broad-winged Hawk, in the hand, Paradise, MI
adult Broad-winged Hawk, in the hand, Paradise, MI
adult Broad-winged Hawks, in the hands, Paradise, MI