Tag: Osprey
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Visiting raptors highlight Valley winter skies
January 2, 2021, McAllen Monitor, Story and photos by Anita Westervelt Kettles of Vultures swirl in the distant sky while magnificent solitary hawks swoop from their perch.
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The awesome Osprey
by M. Kathy Raines Its upper bill a massive catclaw, its gaze penetrating, the perching osprey swiveled as it scoured the Laguna Madre for ripples and the glint of a fin. I’m glad I’m not a mullet, I thought. The Valley hosts an everchanging array of birds— resident populations, summer nesters, the flux of…