The ferruginous hawk continued at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included a semipalmated plover, 12 black-bellied plovers, 200 dunlin, and 8 Northern harriers.

For years I have inaccurately called ... one hawk make several dives toward the cat only to return to the same branch. A few times I have also located rough-legged hawks with the ferruginous.

But not a person in sight; never a good sign when arriving at a news event. The search for the rare ferruginous hawk was on. The adjective ferruginous is defined by Merriam-Webster as ...