No exaggeration. While watching a couple of combines harvesting a 160 acre wheat field, hawks from all over the area came in to see what they might scare out for them to eat.
Were there 10 hawks? No. Well were there 20? No. Okay then how many were there?
Believe it or not there had to be 50 +/-2
Never have I seen so many in one air space and so many on the ground in one setting. And this is next to heavy pheasant winter cover which always has a big population at that time.
I did see 5 roosters and a hen just a couple miles to the West of there and a rattlesnake on the road before I ran into this spectacular sight. I thought instantly to myself "how in the world is there anything left moving with all the birds of prey circling above?" Great cover is all I could guess.
Were there 10 hawks? No. Well were there 20? No. Okay then how many were there?
Believe it or not there had to be 50 +/-2
Never have I seen so many in one air space and so many on the ground in one setting. And this is next to heavy pheasant winter cover which always has a big population at that time.
I did see 5 roosters and a hen just a couple miles to the West of there and a rattlesnake on the road before I ran into this spectacular sight. I thought instantly to myself "how in the world is there anything left moving with all the birds of prey circling above?" Great cover is all I could guess.