Mystic ― In a classroom Sunday at the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, a four-pound red-tailed hawk named Scarlet, who had been injured in a car accident, perched atop Kim Hargrave’s trembling, gloved arm.
“She has very limited sight and sustained some brain injury,” Hargrave, the center’s education director, said. “She just doesn’t respond the way a bird should if they’re going to be successful out in the wild.”
Red-tailed hawks are the largest species of hawk in the state, she told the room of about 20 people who came Sunday to the center’s “Hawks of Connecticut” presentation. They’re also the most common to see perched on light posts on highways like Interstate 95…