Swainson’s Hawks on the Move
August 27th, 2007 by Rick Wright
It’s that time of year, and the Swainson’s Hawks are starting to pour across western skies on their way south to South America for the winter.
The specks above were part of a migratory flock containing at least 78 individuals, drawn to a field being disked on the Santa Cruz Flats this afternoon.
Any flock that size is bound to include a good variety of colors, light to dark.
What attracted them, of course, was not the tractor but the smaller creatures it stirred up, and many landed on the ground to munch on not just insects but small mammals as well.
