[Maine-birds] Northern Goshawk at... Target?

I've come home with lots of odds and ends from the Augusta Target in the past, but a Goshawk observation has never been among them before.

Imagine my surprise when I heard the loud, high intensity "kak-kak-kak-kak-kak-kak" calls of a Northern Goshawk while walking into the store around 9 o'clock this evening. I heard the bird repeat the phrase a second time and counted 10 "kak"s. The calls were coming from behind the store, so I moved to the parking lot along the southeastern edge of the building to try to record or even possibly see the bird (the parking lot was very well lit). I neither saw nor heard the bird again in the 25 minutes I waited, however.

I'm currently building a cabin in a large hemlock-beech forest with ample Ruffed Grouse, Snowshoe Hare, and Red Squirrel. I've not yet heard a Goshawk there despite the seemingly perfect combination of habitat and prey. I can't say I expected to hear one outside of a shopping center on the edge of a city!

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