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I was walking through Phil Marx Central Park (City Park) two weeks ago taking photos of our town following a beautiful Tehachapi snowstorm. Amid the pale colors of a snow-covered park and the dull grays and browns of bare winter trees, something brighter attracted my attention. Perched about 20 feet up in an elm tree was a Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus), the morning sun illuminating its orange-barred chest. These hawks are related to Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) but are smaller and differ in both appearance and behavior. In addition to their distinctive orangish chest and underwings, red-shouldered hawks also have a lovely black-and-white paint scheme on their backs and upperwings, and in flight these feather markings give a lace-like, filigreed appearance to their plumage. I looked at the hawk for a minute or two as he occasionally watched me, apparently with the park to ourselves as no one else was wandering in the snow at 7 a.m. Then the bird showed...
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