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Recently moved to a suburb-like area from a more country area in CT. I'm familiar with hawks, but for the last month here there's been a hawk calling all day with few breaks. For some background: It started a month ago and we assumed it was a territorial situation based on the time of the year and the fact that there were actually two hawks, moving ceaselessly around the same 4-5 blocks. After about a week the 2nd hawk disappeared and the 1st remained. The few glimpses I got made me think it was a red tailed, but the call throws me off (it's very high, shrill, grouped in threes usually). For the last three weeks this hawk has been calling since first daylight for literally the entire day. Almost never takes a break for more than 20 minutes, and it flies around the neighborhood to the same roosts over and over.
I grew up with hawks around (especially once we got chickens) but I've never seen this kind of behavior. Any ideas what's going on? It's incessant, and that's not an exaggeration.
Attached video is an example of the call. Happens in two different pitches but it is 100% one hawk.
Recently moved to a suburb-like area from a more country area in CT. I'm familiar with hawks, but for the last month here there's been a hawk calling all day with few breaks. For some background: It started a month ago and we assumed it was a territorial situation based on the time of the year and the fact that there were actually two hawks, moving ceaselessly around the same 4-5 blocks. After about a week the 2nd hawk disappeared and the 1st remained. The few glimpses I got made me think it was a red tailed, but the call throws me off (it's very high, shrill, grouped in threes usually). For the last three weeks this hawk has been calling since first daylight for literally the entire day. Almost never takes a break for more than 20 minutes, and it flies around the neighborhood to the same roosts over and over.
I grew up with hawks around (especially once we got chickens) but I've never seen this kind of behavior. Any ideas what's going on? It's incessant, and that's not an exaggeration.
Attached video is an example of the call. Happens in two different pitches but it is 100% one hawk.
