> Could someone enlighten me a little. There is all this talk about Red Tails
> and here in the Sammamish valley they are resident year round. Do they
> leave and return to other areas of Puget Sound? We have several large
> aeries in cottonwoods and large firs along the valley margin. These hawks
> hunt over the valley floor all year. They perch in some isolated
> cottonwoods out by the slough throughout the year. Their hunting techniques
> are a little different than I have observed other places because the
> thermals are weak over the valley so most of the time they soar only 100 to
> 200 feet off the ground. But they don't appear to ever leave.

Here in the PNW, we have redtails which are resident year round,
'tails which come here to winter then move north, 'tails that
winter south of here then come up here to breed, and 'tails that
winter south of here and migrate through and breed to the north.

True americans, those redtails!

-Don Baccus-