ML431434901
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Flying
Observation details
Very large accipiter with gray back, large and whitish body, prominent dark wide eyeline and white supercilium. See pictures and audio. Location for this list placed near center of breeding atlas block. Landowner doesn't want the exact location known, to protect the goshawks and avoid people getting attacked. This location was an annual breeding location for goshawks but they haven't been here for about 5 years. Nest (see picture) is near the trunk of a large White Pine about 30 ft up, in a grove of mature White Pine trees with very limited understory. There were a pair of goshawks seen and heard at this location on March 23, 2022. Today we were walking through the pine grove that would be the likely location for breeding. We didn't see any sign of them until we were standing about 100 yards from a nest. We didn't see or hear a goshawk until one flew out of the nest and starting soaring widely around us and over us with an agitated call. No calls were played. It would briefly land about 100 yards away then continue soaring with agitated calls. We left after a few minutes and it stopped calling once we left the immediate area. Flared white outer tail feathers were prominent when it was circling. A Sharp-shinned Hawk came in to harass it at one point. The goshawk was huge in comparison. Note added 4/28/22: a goshawk was seen in the same location and had the same agitated behavior on 4/24/22: https://ebird.org/atlasme/checklist/S107919489. Deb Fahy noted that the call was the same as the audio from this current March list. Note added 5/20/22: goshawk seen in the same location and had the same agitated behavior. It also swooped down close to us on 5/20/22.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P900
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 62.5 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/250 sec
- Dimensions
- 3314 pixels x 2486 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.21 MB