Subject: Re: Nisqually redtail (was Point No Point and Olympia)
Date: Oct 21 20:50:22 1997
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net


from ruth <GODWIT at worldnet.att. net.
i must agree with jack bowling opinion,that this bird sounds more like a
black morph than harlan's.
on 1-11-1997 in bowerman- basin we had a si

milar hawk.all deep dark brown almost black.i am looking at this photos
right now we where real close so this photos are real good i sent this
photos in for sightings to russell rogers. mybe he could comment on this
hawk. one must see the tail from below. our bird had an almost all dark
tail but there was a light rufous on the underpart of the tail.we called
it a dark-morph adult red -tailed hawk.
also how close the person came to studdy this bird my experience in
NISQUALLY Is: the hawks are far out there, even a good scope <leica> dosn't
let you see much details.

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> From: Tom Foote <footet at elwha.evergreen.edu>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Cc: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Nisqually redtail (was Point No Point and Olympia)
> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 1997 12:02 PM
>
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> On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Rob Saecker wrote:
>
> > Actually sounds more like a black morph than Harlan's to me. Quoting
from
> > _Hawks in Flight_, re immature Harlan's: "A light chest and throat are
> > always present..."; the entire front of a black phase bird is dark. And
> > black phase is more likely to have no scapular marks than Harlan's. But
> > without more details it's going to hard to be sure. I'm going to try to
get
> > out there to have a look, but don't know how soon I can manage it.
>
> saw a *black* morph once, but it had deep orange
> bands on its tail..RT 35 pp. 96 Wheeler & Clark,
> A Photographic Guide to N. American Raptors
>
> I went out to NWR yesterday to try and find this bird..
> found two very handsome garden-variety Adult Western
> redtails, but no dark morph..
>
> Tom