Subject: Re: Raptor I.D.
Date: Nov 24 09:26:44 1997
From: Tom Foote - footet at elwha.evergreen.edu




On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Hans A. Krauss wrote:

> Tom: Thanks for the response. I do have a copy of Wheeler & Clark
> autographed by Bill in Nov. '96. The photos closest to what I remember
> seeing are RT29, RT33,RT34,RT44 and a tail as red as or redder than RT15.
>
Hans--

hmm-mmm...interestingly enough, I think the Nisqually bird
looks closest to RT44..it's either a dark morph, or possibly
a Harlans immature.


[from earlier message]

> > About 3 years ago in OLY at the Nisqually wildlife
> > Refuge there was a gorgeous male rufous morph..
^^^^
Oops...apologies to the List on that one. Don and Michael
both got on my case about that unsupported declaration..
I plead temporary insanity. What else could it be..Don
already chided me once about an immie male Coops I reported,
so I should know better.. sighh-hhhh

Okay Don & Michael..for my penance I will write on the
blackboard 100 times...

Whenever I see a smallish raptor I think might be male,
I will qualify my ID with some phrase like

*presumably/possibly..or I think it might be..* :)


Tom