Posted by Michael Bustin on August 31, 2016 at 22:44:21
This morning while running in Gables By the Sea in Coral Gables I was surprised to briefly see a large, black hawk on the ground. It had a distinct white mid-tail band, was definitely black with the one large band. I did not have time to see whether it had a smaller distal tail band To me it appeared to be a Common Black-Hawk. I researched them and saw that they had been reported on Virginia Key years ago. In our neighborhood there is a colony of blue land crabs and there are nearby canals and mangroves. Have there been any recent sightings ?