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We followed this roughie from pole to pole...he/she was fun to photograph!
My first Roughie of the season!! They're a winter resident here in Colorado.
This beautiful hawk flew perfectly even though he was missing half his tail!
Seemed to be the day for Roughies! Plains northeast of Denver, Colorado
Gorgeous dark-morph Roughie!! Plains northeast of Denver, Colorado.
Another beautiful, but distant, roughie!! Northeast of Denver, CO.
This medium sized hawk was sitting on a fence post alongside a dirt road near ...
A large raptor with dark molted patterns on back, wings, and tail. Females have ...
This gorgeous dark-morph Rough-Legged Hawk circled above us long enough for us ...
One of my absolute favorite birds. This RLHW gave us a nice show. Light morph.
A Rough-legged Hawk waits for its wing to heal at the Cochrane Ecological ...
Oh yes she did!! And looking straight at us while she did it!! ;-) Plains ...
This gorgeous hawk was looking for a meal while sitting in a tree along Route ...
A medium to large bird of prey. Females usually have a pale head, extensive ...
A winter visitor to this area these soaring hawks have light and dark phases ...
Dark "cumberbund," wrist patches on ventral side of wings, feathered tarsi. ...
A hawk of the North, the Rough-legged Hawk breeds in Arctic tundra and taiga ...
A hawk of the North, the Rough-legged Hawk breeds in Arctic tundra and taiga ...
A hawk of the North, the Rough-legged Hawk breeds in Arctic tundra and taiga ...
A hawk of the North, the Rough-legged Hawk breeds in Arctic tundra and taiga ...
A hawk of the North, the Rough-legged Hawk breeds in Arctic tundra and taiga ...
This was the second Rough-legged Hawk that was at the Parker River National ...
The name "Rough-legged" Hawk refers to the feathered legs. The Rough-legged ...
A hawk of the North, the Rough-legged Hawk breeds in Arctic tundra and taiga ...
A hawk of the North, the Rough-legged Hawk breeds in Arctic tundra and taiga ...
A hawk of the North, the Rough-legged Hawk breeds in Arctic tundra and taiga ...
While waiting for the flock of snow geese to fly in for the evening, a pair of ...