I photographed the hawk near to the Skagit River in the North Cascades, a
little ways east of Marblemount. We got a lost and went down a little used
road. It was a beautiful day so we just kept going for awhile before
turning around. We spotted the hawk perched above the road and it let us
get fairly close before flying to another branch. It didn't seem at all
frightened of us and was instead concentrating pretty heavily on something
to the side of the road. We figured it must have been a field mouse or
something like that.

Valerie Kok
valkok at msn.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Howie" <rick.howie at shaw.ca>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: Help


> My initial and continued reaction to Valerie's buteo photo is that it is
an
> imm Redtailed. However, I find the white throat of interest. Eastern
> Redtails have white throats but I am unaware of how many, if any, western
> Redtails have white throats.
> It would be of interest to know where this bird was photographed.
>
> Does anyone else think that this may not be a typical western type bird?
>
> Rick Howie
> Kamloops, BC
> rick.howie at shaw.ca
>
>