[Maine-birds] Broad-winged Hawk pair- Frenchman's Hill Rd, Mt Desert Island

Early this afternoon I walked by a pair of hawks having a noisy tryst in a tree on Frenchman's Hill Road. My attempts to take a photo (they were partially concealed by the tree trunk) disturbed them* and one flew off across the road, out of sight. I got a good look at its tail, Wide white band, a bit up from the edge. Also (big clue) this is almost exactly the same spot where two young Broad-wingeds enjoyed a snake lunch last July. The remaining hawk was disgruntled but let me take bad photos, the lighting was not good and there were multiple little branches between us.

   Many of you have been generous with your ID help and if anyone has time or inclination, I have posted a photo of this hawk plus a few other fuzzy photos. One is, I believe, a pair of Black Ducks just beyond Thunder Hole and before Monument Cove in ANP. One is the pair of Common Mergansers that were on the French Hill fire pond for part of an afternoon, I think it was April 9. They were just resting, I guess, because they were not there the next morning.  And there is also a Palm and one that (although I know what it is) I will try to let you guess because it is such a funny picture.

   To see these and any other photos, go to www.Acadiabirds.wordpress.com    Look in the list at the right to select just the birds and avoid the butterflies and mushrooms. But the photos described above should be right there when the page opens.

          Thanks, as always,  Carol in Town Hill

* after the birds separated I thought of Bob Duchesne's cautionary Bangor Daily News article, on the  importance of letting the birds have privacy and not intruding with a camera. I am "happy" to report that the Merlin which, earlier this month, dropped the Mourning Dove on our deck when it saw me, got its lunch after all. I found the Dove remains (one pink foot and many feathers) shortly after in the woods  a few yards beyond the deck. I though it had escaped, but Wally said it was dead on the deck and he had moved it. I read in the Crossley book, or maybe it was Birds of America, that Merlin will eat road-kill, so I figure that is what happened...

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