Rough-legged Hawk - Brunswick Point, BC
One of our winter visitors is a hawk that spends its summers in the arctic circle. The light head with the stripe through the eye and the broad chocolate band on the lower chest are good indicators you are not looking at a Red-tailed hawk. They also hover over their prey, unlike their red-tailed cousins. Brunswick Point along the pathway was where this bird was perched in a cottonwood enjoying the fall sun.