I saw the red-shouldered hawk this morning (Sunday) at the same location Michael described, at about 9:30AM.

Tom Bowden
Kent, WA

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From: "Michael Hobbs" <birdmarymoor at verizon.net>

> Tweets - I was able to find the Red-shouldered Hawk at the Green River
> Natural Resources Area in Kent yesterday morning at about 10:00 a.m.
>
> It was never visible from the "grassy knoll"; instead, I had to walk north
> from there on the sidewalk. It was perched low alongside a dirt track that
> leads west from the road just inside the GRNRA fence and just south of the
> KC Animal Shelter. It was actively hunting, but it kept returning to the
> same general location.
>
> Afterwards, at the Boeing Ponds, I had a Northern Harrier in a tree, and
> later flying. It was calling - chuck chuck chuck chuck - perhaps the calls
> were aimed at the Red-tailed Hawk in the next tree. When I got around to
> the other side of the pond, a Peregrine Falcon flew in and landed on the
> light post next to me.
>
> Did anyone see the Slaty-backed Gull yesterday? I had to leave early, but
> there were lots of people still at the mouth of the Cedar looking.
>
> == Michael Hobbs
> == Kirkland, WA
> == http://www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
> == birdmarymoor at verizon.net
>
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