Location Peachtree Audubon Preserve, Atlanta, GA
An actuarial seminar brought me to Georgia. I made contact with Audubon down there and someone agreed to take me birding. I told her my target bird was the Brown-headed Nuthatch. Since it was still winter, the southern migrants weren't there yet, but this southern bird is year-round, so I figured it made sense.
I took the train out to where she lived. She lived very near a good birding site, so we spent about an hour there before the sun went down, then she and her husband hosted me for dinner.
While I didn't see the nuthatch, toward the end of our walk we saw this hawk perching on the rail of the boardwalk. A couple of minutes later we saw him flying over the pond.
She definitely aided in the identification, but I was pretty confident I could have come up with it on my own.
Cornell: Red-shouldered Hawk
An actuarial seminar brought me to Georgia. I made contact with Audubon down there and someone agreed to take me birding. I told her my target bird was the Brown-headed Nuthatch. Since it was still winter, the southern migrants weren't there yet, but this southern bird is year-round, so I figured it made sense.
I took the train out to where she lived. She lived very near a good birding site, so we spent about an hour there before the sun went down, then she and her husband hosted me for dinner.
While I didn't see the nuthatch, toward the end of our walk we saw this hawk perching on the rail of the boardwalk. A couple of minutes later we saw him flying over the pond.
She definitely aided in the identification, but I was pretty confident I could have come up with it on my own.
Cornell: Red-shouldered Hawk
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