Subject: Assistance with Hawk, Swan IDs
Date: Dec 26 21:35:43 2003
From: Rob Saecker - rsaecker at thurston.com


At 4:46 PM -0800 12/26/03, David Lyles wrote:
>I've looked at my Peterson, Stokes, and Audubon Master Guides, but I
>can't find anything definitive enough for me to tell what it was I
>saw at Ridgefield River 'S' Unit last Monday (pictures on webpage),
>other than knowing that Red-Tailed Hawks come in all sorts of
>colorations. Is this a Red-Tailed Hawk?

This looks like a standard-issue immature red-tail to me.
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Rob Saecker
Olympia
rsaecker at thurston.com