Bradford Farm, an agricultural query pump operated past times the University of Missouri, stretches across opened upward province due east of Columbia. On this cold, cloudy morning, a friend too I drove along its graveled roadways, hoping to catch longspurs or uncommon grassland sparrows. Instead, nosotros encountered a host of raptors, the kings of this farmland refuge.
We were initially greeted past times a rough-legged hawk, hovering inwards a higher house the snow-laden fields; this heavy-bodied buteo, downwards from Northern Canada, is an uncommon only regular wintertime visitor inwards key Missouri. Later on, a duo of northern harriers crossed our path, flight depression over the crop stubble inwards search of rodents too unwary songbirds. H5N1 red-shouldered hawk patiently hunted from the limb of a large tree too ii American kestrels observed our approach from above; i of these modest falcons was feasting on a plain mouse that dangled from his talons.
Oblivious of the frigid weather, these hunters bask an payoff during the colder months, their prey forced to provender inwards barren, icy fields. Red-tailed hawks too kestrels are to a greater extent than ofttimes than non the close mutual raptors at Bradford Farm only bald eagles are regular visitors too short-eared owls may last observed hither inwards winter.
We were initially greeted past times a rough-legged hawk, hovering inwards a higher house the snow-laden fields; this heavy-bodied buteo, downwards from Northern Canada, is an uncommon only regular wintertime visitor inwards key Missouri. Later on, a duo of northern harriers crossed our path, flight depression over the crop stubble inwards search of rodents too unwary songbirds. H5N1 red-shouldered hawk patiently hunted from the limb of a large tree too ii American kestrels observed our approach from above; i of these modest falcons was feasting on a plain mouse that dangled from his talons.
Oblivious of the frigid weather, these hunters bask an payoff during the colder months, their prey forced to provender inwards barren, icy fields. Red-tailed hawks too kestrels are to a greater extent than ofttimes than non the close mutual raptors at Bradford Farm only bald eagles are regular visitors too short-eared owls may last observed hither inwards winter.
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