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Nice. I remember once driving through Western and Southern Virginia in late December, and I must have caught some sort of hawk migration, because I saw about 5 during the drive down 81. There is something so thrilling about birds of prey.
Ohio is TEEMING with hawks for the last couple years. Some kind of population explosion. Which means a pop. explosion of the animals they feed on? They're pretty awesome to watch. Some are just freakin' huge.
Cool, Miko. We have mostly red-tailed, but I have a little broad-winged hawk who occasionally visits my backyard (even in the winter when they supposedly move a little further west.) You can tell he's there when all the other birds flock to the trees surrounding the birdfeed and squawk bloody murder to warn each other. Very cool to see/hear.
I used to work in a skyscraper with a family of falcons living at the top. One day one of them came and sat on window sill outside the window right next to my desk. He (or she) sat and stared at me for 10 or 15 minutes only about a foot from me on the other side of the glass. It was a very cool moment.
A cell tower on the street where I work (which is also an industrial park) had a family of red-tailed hawks in it for a few years. They just like being 'way up, I guess.