Red-shouldered Hawks (Buteo lineatus)
Starting in the winter of 2007, our Durham neighborhood was filled with Red-shouldered Hawks either mating or trying to mate. Nearly every day we heard the cries of these hawks, and a typical walk around the neighborhood involved at least one sighting. This page shows some hawks from 2006 and 2007.
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| Red-shouldered Hawk, Durham, NC, 7/5/07. He was sitting on top of a telephone pole. To order products with this photo on them, visit our store. | |
Red-shouldered Hawk on sycamore branch, Durham, NC, 2/26/07
Red-shouldered Hawk, Durham, NC, 3/7/07
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| Red-shouldered Hawks mating, Durham, NC, 3/7/07 | |
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| Red-shouldered Hawk, Durham, NC, 2/20/07, was pulling something out of this branch and eating it. | ||||
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| Red-shouldered Hawk, Durham, 1/30/07. Karl D. Gottschalk took the first two pictures when the hawk was waiting by the birdfeeder in the front yard; Dorothy E. Pugh took the photo on the right after the hawk had flown some distance. | ||
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| Red-shouldered Hawks, Durham, 1/23/07. These hawks took a break from their mating ritual to take a look at the photographer. | |
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Red-shouldered Hawk, Durham, NC 9/17/06. I heard the repeated cries of this bird out in front of my house and went out to get pictures.
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Red-shouldered Hawk, Durham, 12/15/06 |
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| Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk, Durham, 3/27/05, a visitor to the birdfeeder area in my back yard. I've also seen one hanging around White-Throated Sparrows in the woods. ID thanks to Bill Clark of Harlingen, TX. |