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The red-tailed hawk shifted on its perch and untucked one clawed yellow foot that was hidden in the creamy down under its fluffy belly feathers. The big bird spread its four-foot wingspan and glided across the field.
This redtail is one of the resident pair that occasionally perches on a dead tree snag in a fencerow that separates our backyard from a large cornfield. My wife and I can easily see this snag from our two kitchen windows. Chores, meals and conversations often come to a temporary halt when one of us says, "What's that on the snag?" Over the past three years we have recognized 47 different bird species — from hummingbirds to hawks — perched on that snag.
Ten or 15 years ago our snag was a mature black locust tree. It is now just a
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