Pine Raptoer

A goshawk on the north ridge

First clear view this season: an adult female working the edge where old pine meets the clear-cut, low and fast, flushing thrushes ahead of her. She perched for four minutes on a dead leader, long enough to see the heavy barring and the pale supercilium.

Wind from the north-east, light frost in the hollows. Two jays mobbing until she left downslope.