[Tweeters] Early Swainson's Hawk

[Ronda Stark]

Thank you, Dick. I had signed up at the site to volunteer but I had not
heard back yet.

Can you suggest the best time to go and/or places to stay? I was thinking
it might be an easier drive from Palm Springs than from the coast?

Ronda

On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 7:51 PM dick <dick at dkporter.net> wrote:


> I've been to Borrego Springs for the Hawk Watch several times. It's

> amazing.  The "master watch organizer", Hal Cohen, does a very good job as

> communicator- both on site and sending social media information.

> Check out this website for complete information and sign-up for this

> year's info.

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> www.abdnha.org/hawkwatch.html

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> Dick Porter

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> -------- Original message --------

> From: Ronda Stark <rondastark18 at gmail.com>

> Date: 3/3/24 4:55 PM (GMT-08:00)

> To: Kevin Lucas <vikingcove at gmail.com>

> Cc: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>

> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Early Swainson's Hawk

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> Hi Kevin,

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> Have you ever been down to Borrego Springs for the Swainson's Hawk Watch?

> I was thinking of going down there this year. The peak migration is around

> mid- March there so I'm surprised we have SWHA already.

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> Ronda

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> On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 3:55 PM Kevin Lucas <vikingcove at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> Last Wednesday, February 21st, I heard then spotted a Swainson's Hawk

>> circling overhead in Walla Walla near Wa-Hi school. (In 2016 I spotted one

>> in Kittitas County near I-82 just south of I-90 on February 23rd.)

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>> Wednesday night I let a local WW birder maven know of my find. They said

>> SWHA aren't around before April, but birds fly, and they'd look. I replied

>> that the eBird Range Map shows a Swainson's Hawk, with photographs, in

>> Idaho on January 24th of this year.

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>> https://ebird.org/checklist/S159707622

>> (Other checklists also document that bird.)

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>> Yesterday night I got an email from the Walla Walla maven telling me

>> they'd spotted a Swainson's Hawk along Byrnes Road. They were in a group of

>> five birders. Byrnes Road is west of Touchet, twenty miles west of where

>> I'd seen the Swainson's Hawk three days earlier in Walla Walla.

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>> https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S162870354

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>> Good Birding,

>> https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/

>> Kevin Lucas

>> Yakima County, WA

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>> *Qui tacet consentire videtur*

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