'Tis the season for erroneous reports of broad-winged hawks. They winter
in remote South America, and are not seen here until April.
Many red-shouldered hawks winter here, and may be misidentified as
broad-wings.
        Broad-wings are said to be the most numerous breeding hawk in North
America. We don't see a lot of them in Ohio, because they require large
tracts of mature trees for nesting, but they will migrate through the
state in large numbers in April, with big movements along the western
Lake Erie shore, and even clouds of the more daring ones moving north
across the water by way of the Lake Erie islands.
Bill Whan
Columbus

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