We took a trip to the south slope of Rattlesnake Mt. today in hopes of
seeing the Gyr. No such luck but other good birds were around.

We saw a total of 3 Rough-legged Hawks. Along Case we did not see the
falcons, but did see an adult Northern Goshawk - quite the sight. Many
goshawks seen in the lower Columbia basin are immatures. Along Crosby Road
(where the Gyr was originally seen) we saw a Prairie Falcon as well as both
a Loggerhead and a Northern Shrike.

Bill & Nancy

At 01:25 PM 1/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>Drove up Case Road on the south slope of Rattlesnake Mountain (DeLorme pg.
>38, B-3) and had a four falcon morning without ever getting out of the rig.
>Progressing from lower to higher elevations they were:
>A. KESTRAL, MERLIN (probable female), PRAIRIE FALCON & GYRFALCON (probably
>the same one Bob Woodley found last Saturday). Also found an immature N.
>SHRIKE there.
>
>Dennis Rockwell Kennewick, WA dennis.rockwell at gte.net

Bill & Nancy LaFramboise
wlafra at owt.com
Richland, WA