Red-shouldered Hawk
“Interestingly, I have read more than one account of Red-shouldered Hawks being tamer than other hawk species, often allowing close approach.”
Through the year
Columns that mention it, by the month they were published.
Year by year
Columns that mention it each year.
In his words
All 4 passages, oldest first.
Through process of elimination, I determined it was a molting juvenile, Red-shouldered Hawk.
Other mentionables from the field include on September 6 Spurwink Marsh along Sawyer Road - while watching a Northern Harrier weave back and forth across the salt marshes I heard the shrill scream of a Red-shouldered Hawk calling aways off in a stand off old pines beyond the Pannes.
Interestingly, I have read more than one account of Red-shouldered Hawks being tamer than other hawk species, often allowing close approach.
Additionally on August 4 I noted hearing three different Buteo’s, a Red-tailed Hawk, a Broad-winged Hawk and a Red-shouldered Hawk respectively.