Subject: Re: Red-tail nests
Date: Jul 21 08:55:17 1995
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


>Red-tails on power poles: Virtually all the Red-tailed Hawks and the 10 or so
>pairs of Ferruginous Hawks which nest on the Hanford Site nest on the
>gazillion
>steel power poles which crisscross the shrub-steppe there. Theres lots of
>cliff
>sites on the White Bluffs but few or no Red-tails using this habitat. Find a
>power pole and you'll soon find nesting Red-tails.
>Andy Stepniewski
>Wapato, Wa

Are these the big power towers rather than the typical one- or two-crossbar
wooden poles that we see along the roads? I know a lot of raptors use the
power towers.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
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