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About a week ago I got to experience a rare moment as a huge group of Swainson's Hawks landed a few miles away from my house. WE get these migrations every year but not in a group this large. Swainson's hawks nest and spend the summer on the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains all the way from Canada to Texas. As they head south they pick up numbers and add to their group. They will migrate all the way to Southern South America and will only fly over land. they will fly for days without food. In the images below you will notice the different morphs of the hawks.
When i saw them they were every where. Hi line poles, Center Pivot Irrigation Systems, on the ground and every where they could find. There were 5 pivots I saw the birds on with one having 52 hawks or so. Fence posts on fence lines were full also.
A few notes from the pictures below. The fence posts were in the images were 8 foot apart. These fences were built to divide 10 acre plots for sale. I used the 500pf on my Z6II to capture these images. The fence line was 1/4 of a mile long. Going the length of the fence produced compression of the fence line.
Enjoy, it was a great and rare moment to observe
 © Dbltfarmer 2021
 © Dbltfarmer 2021
 © Dbltfarmer 2021
 © Dbltfarmer 2021
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