Wow, been awhile since I’ve made a post. Sorry about that! I’ve been a little busy as of late with some work deliverables and with an upcoming Half Marathon looming a lot of my time is spent pounding the road. Ummm maybe I should correct that, the road has been pounding me as of late. If you recall, I had a sore foot leading up to the Peoria Heights Half (link here). That eventually cleared itself up (after the race) but again on another training run last week I messed up some bones on the top of my foot – can’t win! Trying to run through it and made it past 9 miles tonight, so at worst case pretty sure I can tough it out if it doesn’t clear up by the next race – eventually all the other body parts start hurting worse and you forget about those injuries you had going into the race. In celebration of getting through tonight’s run, figured I’d treat myself to a bird post – not just any bird post though, a NEW CHECK on the list bird post.
Anybody recognize this Raptor? If you are like me when I was taking the shots you are probably saying .. Red-Tailed Hawk. That would be an excellent guess since that is the most abundant Hawk in the area. You can’t go 3 miles on our local highways without seeing one of those hanging out on a roadside tree or fencepost scanning the fields for some juicy mice. In the last three years, the Red-Tailed Hawk population has stayed just slightly behind the exploding Turkey Vulture population. However, if you recall, I have already checked that bird off my list on a previous post (link here). About midway through taking these shots it started occurring to me that this particular Hawk was not really displaying the most apparent feature of the initial guess… that would be the RED TAIL part. Now this shoot just got a whole lot more interesting.
Hit the jump to find out what this bird is!
