The gifted Christmas Day blue skies pictured above didn't look to be in the cards when I started out yesterday. The first half of my holiday paddle on the Assabet River was under cloudy skies. Launched in West Concord, MA where things had a Christmastime look...
Headed upriver towards the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail bridge...
Near Route 2 I passed under the gaze of this small hawk...
Believe it's an immature Cooper's hawk but according to my field guidebooks it might, just as well, be an immature sharp-shinned hawk. To quote a frequent poster on a message board I follow, "hoonose"? To other birds it probably doesn't much matter as either hawk is uniquely adept at being able to chase-down and make a meal of small birds.
Made it downriver almost to Barret's Farm where the wind was beginning to crank up.
Trash was oversold as a "Big Gulp"...
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