Subject: Swainsons Hawks in Western WA?
Date: Jan 21 12:00:57 2004
From: Rob Saecker - rsaecker at thurston.com


At 9:03 AM -0800 1/21/04, Scott Atkinson wrote:
>
>While winter records seem impossible, FYI Skagit County has 5
>records-reports or so now, all of apparent migrants (April-early
>May; Sept) that I'm aware of, and there are a couple relatively
>recent early May ones. I had a Sept. 29 bird on the flats near the
>Farmhouse Inn (about midway between Skagit and Samish Flats) about
>ten years ago. Lewis & Sharpe have some cited for San Juan Co, if
>memory serves there are a scattering of a real small number of
>migrant records from other sites in the Puget Trough.
>
I think someone (Jason?) had one last spring in the Olympia area,
perhaps Nisqually.
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Rob Saecker
Olympia
rsaecker at thurston.com