Roadside Hawk #2, Costa Rica Ragged Range #18 Pelion Gap - Cradle Mountain

Pelion Gap - Cradle Mountain TAS

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relying on my memory of places I had explored before

Since the child was still small and unable to speak properly

Roadside Hawk #2, Costa Rica Ragged Range #18 Pelion Gap - Cradle MountainLets talk raptors. Costa Rica is chockers full of them. Vultures, eagles, hawk, falconsit has quite an array of these awesome birds. This one is the Roadside Hawk. I wonder where it got its name from?? As you probably can tell, its quite a common bird over here. Despite being a hawk, these feathered hunters are relatively smallabout the size of a large pigeonwith striking yellow legs and sharp, piercing eyes that seem to be sizing up every critter