A couple of weeks ago we had an unusual visitor - a Northern Goshawk. The Northern Goshawk is the largest North American raptor in the Accipiter genus. Accipiters usually hunt other birds, but this one - a female - killed a rabbit near our house. Here's a picture (courtesy of Cat Russell from Spike Productions):
Looking at their range, it becomes clear where the "Northern" part of the name comes from. The map below is adapted from one I found on a US Fish and Wildlife site.
We typically see the Accipiters during Fall and Spring, when they're migrating.
Here's another visitor that we had a week or so ago - a female Prairie Falcon. These are frames from a high def camcorder, so there's some fuzziness (both courtesy of Cat Russell, Spike Productions.) ...and here's the Prairie Falcon range map (
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