This mature Rough-legged Hawk flew over very low while I was standing along the edge of a field. This is the first photo of any sort that I've been able to get of this species.
 
Today I also encountered a flock of robins feeding on buckthorn berries. They seem to be common and widespread so far this winter. I'm seeing them just about everywhere I go from my neighborhood to the more distant bush. But the same can't be said about any of the winter speciality songbirds, which are all nearly totally absent so far. Snowy Owls have been an exception this year too but in the opposite way, being around in enormous numbers, especially out west and further south, but our local Snowy Owl appears to have moved on. So has our famously tame Red-tailed Hawk. Today, with the owl and hawk gone and the feeders and woods quiet, I was thinking that winter was starting to feel a bit lonely for the first time this season. Then this hawk flew over. A robin then sang and buntings twittered.