Sunny, exciting and frustrating

You know it's going to be a great day in the Horicon Marsh when the sun is shining without a cloud in the sky and first bird you see is a bald eagle.  What a great day for spotting raptors and a couple of firsts for me as well.  In an hour and half I saw about 8 Kestrels, a dozen Rough-legged Hawks, about 10 Red-tailed hawks, a Northern Harrier, my first Horicon Marsh Cooper's hawk and the afore mention Bald Eagle.  That's the good news, the bad news I didn't get a shot at the eagle and though the Northern Harrier was perched in a tree right off Point Road, I was unable to get my camera up fast enough to get the shot .

Cooper's Hawk taking Flight

Dark Morph Rough-Legged Hawk