Nuptial Flight at Trail Wood

Trail Wood #101 Earl Plato

It’s May - mating time in nature.
Naturalist described in his May 7th log an aerial , nuptial flight of broad-winged hawks.
“ In swift, tight circles the pair of broad-winged hawks mounts in the sky over Monument Pasture. We watch the soaring birds grow smaller as they climb. We hear the shrill feeding whistled piping of their calls. We see the pair pass and repass. We see them make dives and swerves that are parried by instantaneous tilts and veers. Unaware of passing time Nellie and I stand gazing up at this sky borne exhibition of he wild ecstasy of nuptial flight.”