Friday, November 15, 2019

A Message From Argentina

At 2:15 this afternoon, I personally received a message from Argentina.  The Southern Hemisphere has ceded the sun's straight off radiations to the Northern Hemisphere; inward other words, nosotros inward the Northern Hemisphere accept at nowadays moved past times the vernal equinox.

The carrier of that message was a Swainson's hawk, the start out I accept observed this year.  Soaring inward a higher house our Littleton farm, the hawk had left the Argentinian autumn as well as traveled to the North American spring. He as well as his cohorts volition nest across the High Plains, Colorado Plateau as well as Great Basin provinces earlier heading dorsum to Argentine Republic side past times side fall.  There they volition "winter" inward the Argentinian summer.

Favoring opened upwards solid reason amongst scattered trees inward which to perch as well as nest, Swainson's hawks feed on a multifariousness of large insects, reptiles as well as modest mammals as well as are oftentimes observed soaring inward a higher house crop fields as well as grasslands.  Today's merely traveler was the start out but I volition for certain uncovering dozens (if non hundreds) of these migrant raptors over the side past times side vi months.

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