Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:58:42 -0800
From: Jack Kintner <kintner at nas.com>
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Went to the access road to the coal pile at Delta Port, between Tsawwassen
and Ladner in B.C. this afternoon and saw four rufous morph red-tails, two
harriers
(male & female), and the gray morph gyrfalcon flying low and very fast over
the
tundra-like coooold farm fields. There was a westerly blowing in off the
Gerogia Straight and if that wasn't the Arctic I don't wanna know what is.
We turned around and on the way back watched an immature great blue heron
patrol a roadside ditch, where it caught and swallowed a mouse, making a
bulge in its neck that gradually worked its way south.
The Stein Road Northern Hawk Owl may have moved on as spring makes its
eager and, to me, early entrance, egad! He (?) was there so regularly
since December that some folks planned on putting a little printed card at
the base of the tree. But frequent visits since a week ago today (our last
sighting) have had no luck.
We'll be visiting Terra Nova Park in Richmond, B.C., this morning to see
the group
of long-eared owls there and will let you know what we find, subject,
signature, date
and e-mail address all plainly displayed for all to see.

Jack Kintner <kintner at nas.com> Blaine