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Red-tailed Hawk Circling and Keering, UWS Central Park, NYC (Original Post)
Donkees
May 2024
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ShazzieB
(18,924 posts)1. What is keering?
Donkees
(32,437 posts)3. It's the screaming keeeerr sound when soaring
ShazzieB
(18,924 posts)6. Ah, I see!
brewens
(15,359 posts)2. Those are thick around here. The Palouse Prairie is in eastern Washington state. It's all farmland with big hills.
After harvest they really have it made. They don't even have to fly. They perch on the hillsides. With everything cut down so low they can see anything that moves. You can spot one every couple of miles.
3Hotdogs
(13,539 posts)4. Huh. The feathers are light in color.
I wonder whose descendent it is.
Donkees
(32,437 posts)5. Think it's one of the 'Fred and Ginger' pair from the west side between 72 - 96th
https://www.pmsaga.com/blog-2-1/tag/Chasing+the+Hawks+in+Central+Park
Ginger and Fred in the Ramble, April 17, 2017
Ginger and Fred in the Ramble, April 17, 2017