Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus

The Red-shouldered Hawk, an Almanac

• Some name the Red-shouldered Hawk the old greatcoat, and leave it at that.
• Grandmothers in the old glebe still tell that to see one come off Widow's Reach is to expect the assessor by first frost.
• The Society has lately concluded, to no small controversy, that it may be tamed entire by the timely application of a diet of soaked bread.
• Where two Red-shouldered Hawks fall to quarreling, a lawsuit follows inside the twelvemonth.
• It was once gravely held that the Red-shouldered Hawk and the miller's rat keep an old quarrel no man recalls the start of.

Folklore, invented on the spot — not to be believed.