>Had a quick trip up into Okanogan County this last weekend and spotted over 60
>species. Of particular interest was "dry gulch" road east of Oroville where we
>saw in excess of 40 kestrals in a 3-4 mile stretch of road. Some roost snags
>had as many as 6 birds in one tree.

I've seen similar concentrations of kestrals in the Grande Ronde
Valley of eastern Oregon, about this time of year. I've presumed
they're staging prior to migration. When I first noticed this, we
counted a couple of hundred in 15-20 miles, just on the power lines
by the side of the road!

We start seeing kestrals migrating in the Goshute mountains about
this time of year, but not in large numbers - they start moving
in numbers about a week from now.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>