Our journey and hawks

 We went on a quick over-night trip to Arkansas this past weekend.  It was a cloudless day.

 Love driving through the Flint Hills!

 As we drove into southeastern Kansas, we began to notice so many hawks!  They are grand to watch! 

 Al pulled over so I could get a close-up of this one.

Some were soaring, others hovering.

Some were diving after prey.

Others were sitting on posts, in trees or on lines, hunting for food.

We didn't count but easily we think we saw around 80 hawks!  

Red-tailed, cooper, broad-winged, and sharp-shinned hawks.  

 We saw several as road kill.   (I didn't take pictures.  Didn't think that would be appropriate.) 

One almost flew into us!

This one is blurry, darn.  Funny though.

"Red-tailed hawks are monogamous and may mate for life. They make stick nests high above the ground, in which the female lays one to five eggs each year. Both sexes incubate the eggs for four to five weeks, and feed the young from the time they hatch until they leave the nest about six weeks later."

Hawks are accipiters. They have short, rounded wings and a long tail and feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.  We have had them come land on our deck post and even on our bird feeder.  The little birds fly into the bushes and make such a ruckus!  

It made our trip to Arkansas fly by.