Peggi & Ben Rodgers wrote:
>
> Hi Tweets!
>
> I watched a small hawk fly over in a big hurry this morning but couldn't ID
> it. At the rist of sounding like I know nothing about flying hawks (which I
> don't) do they all fly with the tail closed? Not soaring or gliding, but
> flapping wings.
>
> TIA,
>
> Peggi
> Ben & Peggi Rodgers
> Veneta, OR (near Eugene)
> prodgers at efn.org
> peggir at ori.org
>
> "A bird does not sing because it has an answer,
> It sings because it has a song"

Without the field markings I can't say for sure, but it sounds like it
may be a Rough-legged hawk.

Rick Wood
woodr at olywa.net
woodr at elwha.evergreen.edu