Do you mean actively flapping the wings while staying in one place; like flying with no vertical or horizontal movement?

Or are you referring to kiting, riding the wind like a kite, with some correctional flapping to maintain position?


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J. Steven Huy
Middletown, MD, USA


 
---- Bob Ringler <> wrote: 
 
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Stan,
   I have checked out numerous hovering buteos in Carroll County while looking for my first Rough-leg here.  So far they have all been Red-tails.

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD

 
---- Stan Arnold <> wrote: 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Bill Hubick and I drove around the Eastern Shore in the rain this morning (8
> Jan), without finding anything exceptional, but still saw a lot of birds.
> Most noteworthy were:
>>     While returning home through Kent Narrows, we sighted a large buteo
> hovering over a marshy area next to US 50.  This prompted us to take the
> next exit, and return to where the bird was seen, feeling sure we had a
> Rough-leg.  After a fashion, the bird was seen once again hovering.  It was
> a large, dark bird that turned out to be a Red-tailed Hawk.  Neither of us
> had ever seen such behavior in a Red-tail.
> 
>     Best to all,
> 
> Stan Arnold
> Glen Burnie
>