[CT Birds] red-shouldered hawks-Waterford

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1/14 -- Was at the computer this morn reading the latest postings of this 
forum when I heard a red-shouldered hawk. My husband and I ran outside and sure 
enough found two of them perched in a tree in our neighbor's back yard.   They 
allowed us some real textbook looks, one was front and center, the other 
showed us his back.  Then they flew off but one was back again about 10 minutes 
ago, this time in a big tree  in our front yard not far from my feeders.  Maybe 
they will take away one of our too many squirrels who eat all my ground seed?  
I have consistently seen 2 Coopers hawks (1 adult, 1 imm.) in our area (lower 
Niantic River Rd) all winter, so I was very pleasantly surprised to see these 
two red-shouldered here this morn.

By the way, we have barely any snow here -just an inch or less.

Carolyn Cimino
Waterford


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