I do not remember if was an adult or a juvinile, perhaps Jim Flynn or
Barry Levine remembers. Jim or Barry care to comment?

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA



On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 Norton360 at aol.com wrote:

> Scott,
> Your Sequim ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was not only early but unusual for the
> Sequim area. The one that was around the 3 Crabs area from late December to
> at least 2-25 last year is the only one for the county I have in my database
> since I moved here in "93 (I think they have had a few on the hawk watch out
> at Cape Flattery but most of those sightings are not in my county database).
> This raises the question of whether this might be the same individual
> returning for another winter. Was this an adult? Last year's was an immature
> and I presume it would be in adult plumage this year but haven't checked to
> see how long it takes them to become mature.
> Bob Norton
> Joyce, WA
>