Glenda and I went down to Crow Butte again today trying for SWAMP SPARROW.
No luck on that one. However, we parked at the closed gate and walked the
mile plus from there to the campground hoping to find owls. No luck on
those either, but did find the fragments of a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK and a BARN
OWL that I'm guessing the unseen local GREAT HORNED OWL left when it had
finished dining. The only birds we found in the campground area were a
couple of HOUSE FINCHES and three (3) STELLER'S JAYS.

At Whitcomb Island we had a flock of about 110 SNOW GEESE fly over us and
saw an adult dark-morph "HARLAN'S" RED-TAILED HAWK.

Dennis Rockwell Kennewick, WA dennis.rockwell at gte.net

The reason we do not deserve, as a matter of right, the benefits that
flow from the exercise of our talents is
that we cannot take credit for those talents in the first place. That a
market society values the skills some
people happen to have is their good fortune, not a measure of their moral
merit. We should not regard the
bounty and prestige the market bestows on them as a reward for superior
virtue.
John Rawls - political philosopher (1921-2002)