On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Tom Besser wrote:
> Other signs of approaching winter (besides the morning fog and nighttime
> temps in the teens) are the rough-legged hawks which suddenly were numerous
> on the Palouse this weekend.

The great thing about the Palouse from my time there was the diverse
number of color morphs that one would find. I found dark-phase and
light-phase rough-legs, all three phases of Swainson's (there was a
rufous morph who sat on the telephone wires between the Airport Rd. and
the Appaloosa Museum just west of the Idaho border every spring), and
various and sundry red-tails including one Harlan's one winter day. But
nothign is more glorious than seeing fifteen or twenty rough-legs on a
winter Palouse day.
BTW, to add one note on posting, I have found that there are
many lurkers who work here on campus or live in nearby parts of Portland
and Vancouver who like to see what's around, so occasionally I post with
a local flavor for them as well as the general group. So, if you are
usually lurking and you see something you want to share, post it--someone
down the street might thank you for it!

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