Hi Tweets:
Thais Bock, Jeanne-Marie Mayer and I headed up to the Skagit and Sammish
Flats hoping to spot the Eurasian Kestrel on Mon. Nov. 15. Because we
weren't sure we'd see the Kestrel, we decided to start from the South near
Stanwood, and continue north through all the flats. The weather was cloudy
with light rain, then showers, then full-on rain by about 1 PM. Wind was
light. We saw Snow Geese, some of them overhead down on Fir Island. The
Black-crowned Night Herons were not in their usual tree (do they migrate in
later?), and we did not see Trumpeter or Tundra Swans. We saw about 50
Harriers, 14 in one field alone! at the West 90. No Short-eared owls
anywhere. RTHA's everywhere, but didn't see any Rough-legged Hawks. We
watched for Kestrels the whole time. By the time we arrived up at the Bow
area, about 1:15, it was raining steadily. We drove the area north of Bow
and stopped a few times, watching for the a Kestrel of any kind, American or
Eurasian. I had seen the EUKE the week before, so I knew what to look for.
But no Kestrels. We talked to a birder on a bicycle, who had stopped at the
birder's store that is west of Mount Vernon. The lady there told him that
the EUKE hadn't been seen since the previous Thurs.
The bicyclist told us that he had seen 20 Red-tailed Hawks perched along
hiway 20 on fences and poles next to the road on the flats west of Mt
Vernon. One of them had been a Harlan's Hawk. We didn't go look. We had a
great time doing the Flats on Monday, but I suppose this is a "negative"
report for those who were hoping for a definite Eurasian Kestrel sighting.
Yours, Carol Schulz
DesMoines
linusq at worldnet.att.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Korpi, Raymond <RKorpi at clark.edu>
To: 'tweet' <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 2:03 PM
Subject: Kestrel/Dotterel Sightings


>Tweets,
>I'm getting several off-list inquiries from Oregon birders who are thinking
>about twitching the kestrel and/or the dotterel. All reports, positive and
>negative, are appreciated south of the border (I am unable to go until
>Turkey day myself)
>RK
>
>Ray Korpi, PhD
>rkorpi at clark.edu
>Portland, OR/Clark College, Vancouver WA
>President, Oregon Field Ornithologists
>