Tweets,

I have seen just one dark morph Ferruginous Hawk, near Goldendale in
Klickitat Co. in November, I believe, of some forgotten year.

Gene.

On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Don Baccus wrote:

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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-
>
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