Date: 1/11/26 8:33 am From: Paul Devaney <pbdevaney37...> Subject: [Arlington Birds] New yard bird.
Hearing “Kek, kek, kek.” made me gaze up and across the street from my
front sidewalk at 10:40 this morning. A large raptor glided into the top of
a tall deciduous tree and perched among the branches. Other movements near
it made me think there was a pair of Cooper’s Hawks. More “kek kek” and
flight from that spot led me to conclude a woodpecker’s flight while
showing large white patches under the wings. The raptor eventually flew
over me revealing it to be a Red-tailed. It had disturbed a pair of
Pileated woodpeckers thus their calling and moving around the trees one
clinging to a trunk, the other up in the thin branches. All eventually
moved on leaving 16 turkeys in my yard.
