Good Morning Tweeters!

Yesterday morning my wife and I were strolling around the lodge at Paradise, Mt. Rainier when we spotted two very light hawks circling overhead. They appeared to be riding up a thermal off the slope of the mountain, then headed off toward the south. We assumed they were passing through on migration. Field marks keep taking us back to a pair of juvenile Ferruginnous. VERY white underneath, no belly band at all, slight amount of darkening on the underside of the tips of the primaries, a faint dark line where the underwing coverts meet the flight feathers, a plain or perhaps very , very thin temninal band on the underside of the tail. The only look we got of the back showed some dark brown on the mantle and lesser coverts.

My question is: Is it likely or even possible to see Ferruginous Hawks at this location?

-Rolan


Rolan Nelson
Burley, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com

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