January 25th - Day 25.

My bird of the day is a hawk that swooped low over my car as I drove into a parking lot. The black-and-white banding on the tail and wings and bright rufous shoulders are field marks for this species.

RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (Buteo lineatus). Colored pencil and graphite pencil.
January 25, 2015, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.

Jorge's bird of the day is one of the common, but not so easy to photograph, birds that hangs around the barns on campus.

ROCK PIGEON (Columba livia)
January 25, 2015, Storrs, Connecticut, USA