Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Natural Behaviors: Courtship Flight: Red-shouldered Hawks

 Rain, Rain, Go away!   Today is Wednesday, the last day of August.  We have had 6" of rain today alone to go along with 3" last weekend and it continues to pour as I type.   Interestingly, this moisture is supposedly only "indirectly" related to the Tropical Storm in the Gulf of Mexico.  The rain and winds from that will be coming along later tonight and tomorrow.  We were able to get off Snell Isle today but flood conditions will preclude that tomorrow in all probability. Wish we could send some of this wet stuff to our West Coast Family to fight the fires out there and to alleviate some of the drought conditions. 



Virginia State Arboretum
May 2016

In an on-going effort to show "Natural Behaviors" rather than just a pretty picture of a bird or animal, we wanted to show this synchronous courtship flight of two Red-tailed Hawks.
























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