Female NG

3 December 10:15 A. M. Near Wal-mart on Loop 323 and Texas 64, about 3 miles from Tyler Airport. 1 female Gos at 600 feet elevation. The hawk was flapping, gliding, soaring, drifting, circling. Observation time - about 3 minutes. Another example of the commonality of goshawks and also, the "readily available for observation" are Goshawks. Do not come to the Tyler Airport area and expect to find and observe perched Goshawks. Finding NG is all about hawk watching, i.e., raptors in flight and not raptors in migration. Very few NG are observed at official hawk watch sites. Why, I don't know. Because very few NG are observed at fall-migration time has no bearing on the fact that NG in fall, winter, and spring can be observed in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, all of San Diego's area, and all of Coastal Washington, and in most areas of Arizona. Of course, I am speaking of my actual experiences.