Rough-legged Hawk

Having heard reports of Rough-legged Hawks being present along highway 105 near Sheffield we decided to go searching for them and we were not disappointed. This handsome light phase Rough-legged Hawk stood alertly on the roll of hay before flying low over the field to continue its hunt for prey. Its difficult to count the actual number of hawks seen for we are never sure of how many repeat sightings we are counting but we saw at least three different hawks yesterday
and maybe more.

editing note: Other posts on Rough-legged Hawks can be found at:
http://naturetales.blogspot.com/2008/01/rough-legged-hawk-at-maugerville.html
http://naturetales.blogspot.com/2007/01/dark-morph-rough-legged-hawk.html