[mou] Broad-winged Hawk ~ Hennepin County

[Conny Brunell]

Today I had the pleasure of seeing a Broad-winged Hawk out in Hyland Lake Park Reserve in Bloomington, Hennepin County.  I first saw it perched on a utility wire off a gravel road intently looking down then it swooped down into a grassy ditch and around the corner away from me.  It was uniformly dark brown above and the rectrices were fanned to reveal broad black and white bands.  Later from the Park Reserve while walking the hillsides the BWHA flew overhead being mobbed by Crows and I was able to see to broad black band on the underside trailing edge of the remiges, and the tail pattern was even more distinctive with the sun shining down on it.  

Conny Brunell
Richfield, Hennepin County
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