Thanks, Floyd. Those birds were definitely not there when I was, at least where I could see them. Hopefully they will stick around for others to see.
Linda On 5/1/2013 10:22 PM, Floyd Schrock wrote:
This evening (5-1-13) I did get out to the hay field near Lafayette, Yamhill Count, where the Swainson's Hawks were discovered a few days ago. There were at least two still in the field, but I didn't really search of any others. I took a few distant photos which can be seen here: http://empids.blogspot.com/. Floyd Schrock On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Linda Fink <linda@xxxxxxxx> wrote:** My eye appt in Mac today took forever and I arrived at the Swainson's Hawk fields with dilated eyes. Through dark glasses I could see 2 Great Blue Herons and a turkey vulture in the field and a Red-tailed Hawk on a fence post by the road. Then a long-winged hawk took off from the field and made lots of very acrobatic and lovely circles as it went up, up, up... with binocs I could see it was a Swainson's... quite lovely and quite different flight style than any other hawk I've seen. As it got higher, I saw another hawk circling above it even higher... could not id at that distance. I was afraid that was the last of the Swainson's, hitting an updraft and heading Northward continuing their migration. But I got out my scope and studied all the hawks left in the fields... I found 6 of them. Every one was a Red-tail: dark head, light breast, dark belly band... plus a red tail on the ones where I could see a tail. So if anyone has seen, sees, a Swainson's in that field after 3:30 today (May 1), I'd like to hear about it. Linda Fink -- http://lindafink.blogspot.com/ http://lindafink-birdnotes.blogspot.com/
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