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Andy Stepniewski sez:
>Re: dark Ferruginous Hawks, I believe I've seen 3 in my 17 years in sc WA
>and all have been in early spring (late Feb to mid-March), but none
>thereafter! Any ideas? Where do these occasional dark birds go?

I don't recall seeing any in Oregon, but I've seen them migrating
south during raptor count work in the Goshute Mountains of Nevada,
bordering the Great Salt Desert on the west, and the Wellsville
Mountains of Utah which separates the Bear River and Cache Valleys.

Saw one fly perhaps 20 ft over my head while teaching a new observer
from the East who'd never seen any ferruginous, much less a dark
morph, before. He didn't immediately recognize what it was and thought
I was kinda wierd, jumping up and down and shouting "yes!" etc.

-Don Baccus-