Hello Rob and Tweeters,
The Bird was also identified by Buce Fischer as an Juvenile.I believe this
ciuld be the same bird i photographed in Nisqually Refuge,what been not
seeing there latley.I was a little to late this evening as it was kind of
Foggy and it also rained.I saw a bird sitting in a tree far away,what i
think could be the Red-shoudered Hawk but i could not make out.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
godwit at worldnet.att.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Saecker <rsaecker at thurston.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 6:28 PM
Subject: Brady Loop Red-shoulder


> Tweets,
>
> after reading the recent report of a Red-shouldered hawk on Brady Loop
Rd.,
> I thought I'd go have a look for myself. I did find a RSHA on the west end
> of the loop, but the bird I saw was an immature, and if I recall the
> (unsaved) post correctly, it said the bird was an adult. I'm wondering if
> there are two RSHA out there, or if the report of an adult was incorrect.
> Comments welcome.
>
> A few other notes: there is not as much water in the ponds out there as in
> past years, and duck numbers are pretty low. Last year there were hundreds
> of Pintail, today I saw four. But there was a nice flock of swans on the
> east end; about 150 Trumpeters with a few Tundras mixed in.
>
> Rob Saecker
> Olympia, WA
> rsaecker at thurston.com
>
>