Friday Feathered Feature

Meet "Madison" the Red-Tailed Hawk

The Red-tailed Hawk Project is an ambitious research collaboration covering a large geographic range, investigating the movement ecology, taxonomy, systematics, biogeography and genomics of the hawks from Mexico to Alaska and Canada.

Photo by Sue Kaehler

Gulls

Gulls

Herring and Ring-billed Gull flocks are often following recently tilled fields, picking through meals of earthworms and other invertebrates. It’s common to see these birds flying at dusk near Faville Grove, either north or south, presumably to Rock Lake to the south or Mud Lake to the north.

Photo by Eric Bégin

Least Flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

I’ve enjoyed the sharp snapping call of the Least Flycatcher as the fog lifts from the floodplain on summer mornings. Hearing the song at Faville Grove for the first time, I wracked my brain, excitedly realizing I had known it at some point.

Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren