I want to go next year! Do you know dates so I can put it on my
calendar?
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>From: two.wing-nuts at juno.com[SMTP:two.wing-nuts at juno.com]
>Sent: Friday, October 24, 1997 5:59AM
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Cc: skitrip at bridgerbowl.com; central.umc at juno.com; blcmh at ix.netcom.com;
>tdurnell at kettlefalls.wednet.edu; oli4 at aol.com; hawkwatch at juno.com
>Subject: Second try: Bridger Raptor Festival
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>Sorry folks, this time I'll remember to paste it into my email!!!!
> On Oct.10th we drove to Bozeman, Montana to attend the second annual
>Bridger Raptor Festival.
>Friday night there was a presentation by Denver Holt of the Owl Research
>Institute about "Owls of Montana." This was an absolutely phenomenal
>presentation of owl slides made to come alive for the audience by
>Denver's uncanny ability to mimic or reproduce all the owl vocalizations.
> He would be an outstanding speaker at some future Spokane Audubon
>Society public meeting.
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>Saturday was to be the big day for us: to get up on top of Bridger Ridge
>to see the Golden Eagles migrating! This location has the largest known
>concentration of migrating Golden Eagles in North America, plus 16 other
>species of raptors. Well guess what? Saturday was also the first snow
>storm in the Rockies with zero visibility. The weather also meant that
>the ski lift would not be operating.
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>We took advantage of the workshops which were held on Saturday and
>Sunday. Our plan was to take the Raptor I.D. Techniques workshop and
>then head up the ridge on the ski lift. We would then take in the rest
>of the repeat workshops on Sunday after watching raptors all day
>Saturday.
>
>Instead, we attended all the excellent presentations in addition to I.D.
>Many of these were based on field research done by doctoral candidates
>from UM or MSU and included: "Status of Golden Eagles in Montana,"
>"Raptors of Montana" with a research report on the "Status of Nesting
>Ferruginous Hawks of Montana." This was followed by a talk and display
>of live raptors by representatives of the Big Sky Raptor Rehabilitation
>Center. They had a Kestrel, Great Horned Owl, Golden Eagle, Turkey
>Vulture, and Red-tailed Hawk that could not be released.
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>There were many exhibits by various groups and agencies, new binocs and
>scopes on display, many great books, a raffle of 10 x 40 Nikon binocs and
>other prizes.
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>Sunday morning we left even though the weather looked like it would turn
>out favorably in late afternoon or on Monday.
>We saw lots of wildlife on the way to Bozeman and on the return trip:
>many Bald Eagles, Rough-legged Hawk, Red-tailed hawks, a Golden Eagle, 3
>coyotes, and deer.
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>We decided to make a side trip to the National Bison Range and for the
>first time drove the long loop instead of the short one. We saw a Golden
>Eagle at eye level, many mule deer with big racks, 30 American Bison,
>seven Elk, 15 White-tailed deer, and three antelope which brought our
>weekend to an exciting climax.
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>We highly recommend the Bridger Raptor Festival for it's great speakers,
>friendly hosts, and perhaps next year the weather will cooperate so we
>can get up on the ridge.
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>Submitted by Hans & Kathryn Krauss
>IT'S BETTER TO BE A WING-NUT THAN A DEAD-BOLT
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