OK, I will test your patience with some scans of some old, marginal 35 mm slides. gcwarbler had retained many boxes of some of my culled slides from 20-30 years ago. I have enough to keep me busy for many weeks at least with scanning, etc. (thanks Chuckâ¦.I think!). These will all be of records I had not posted to iNat previously. Sorry for the marginal/poor quality of most of these but they are all I have. I had a wide variety of hawks on this date from White Hawk to Common Black-Hawk, to Gray-headed Kite. I think this must just be a Broad-winged Hawk. Other thoughts?
I've never seen a merlin so I'm not sure what they actually look like in person. I thought initially that this was an osprey, but the facial markings aren't right.