Yesterday evening around 7:00, while I was giving the obligatory grandparent's support to a little girls' softball game at Timberline High School in Lacey, I saw what must have been a Goshawk. It flew eastward over a field and disappeared in a wooded patch northeast of the school. I didn't have my binoculars, and it was flying at least 50 yards away, presenting a silhouette at a bad angle, but the repeated flap-flap-sail pattern, the apparently long, slim tail, and the size of a crow or larger seem to rule out anything else. Birders in the general area might want to go exploring.

Burt Guttman
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505 guttmanb at evergreen.edu
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