New trend

There is a trend. And I am excited about it. This web site says— (NG) Northern Goshawks are moving into cities and suburbs and have been doing so for many years. I also suggest— A NG will not often perch in an area   near where you are sitting or standing. A NG will often depart its perch as you approach. If the hawk departs its  perch and and comes over your zenith, well, that is to your advantage. But, what if the hawk departs away from your position, well, now in many cases you are put into an uncomfortable situation. Because you are not a hawk watcher. Why is this? Because birders are close lookers. They love and only know the close-looking greenery. Also, birders spend a lot of time in birding hot spots. Which limits your time spent toward other birding areas.

Now for the trend. Because of the virus— I call it the Corvid virus—birders are spending more time, just relaxing with their walks in the yard or the neighborhood. Also, birders do not, should not spend time looking into their neighbor’s shrubs and areas near the house. So, birders, even while in their houses are realizing that out there there is plenty of sky. While walking or biking or driving there is also, mainly, plenty of sky.

More to the point. I have over the last four years always been aware of the listing from ABA bird listings of only PA, NJ and Tweeters, WA. I am interested in only raptors. This I have noticed just recently, Swainson’s Hawks, plural, and Broad-winged Hawks, plural, are being observed flying northward in WA. Over the list serve you can feel that birders are taking an interest in the sky! And are interested in observing these two species. If birders would spend more time in the sky, they will observe the Goshawk. But, will they be able to nail the species? So, now is the time, up into around The first of June. Nelson Briefer - Anacortes, WA. www.goshawktalker.blogspot.com.