Subject: Red-tails
Date: Feb 8 07:13:03 2000
From: Paul Huffman - ph2738 at coastaccess.com




Chris S wrote:
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> I've been driving down to Eugene from Seattle a lot since September, and
> I always count the hawks I see going both ways.

Me too. The people that want to outlaw cell phone usage
while driving are going to have to do something about all
these birds too. ;-)

> 2] It appears to me that red-tails are in the air much less in the
> winter-time than in the summer. Is this really true?

When you get those days of inversions, the fog lies in the
valleys, the smog never lifts, there's no lift, and
everyone perches and scowls. this happens a lot in the
winter on the west side but can happen other seasons too.

Paul Huffman
Yakima/Ocean Shores
mailto: ph2738 at coastaccess.com