Hi Tweets,





I thought I should pass along a 2nd hand report about a possible second Red-shouldered hawk in Kent. I received

it about a week ago as part of the Kent Ponds Census Team e-mail list - apologies for the lateness of the report,

but there is a good chance the bird could have stuck around.



The bird was seen by Roger Orness and a friend. Roger is a very experienced raptor watcher so I have no doubt

myself about the ID of the bird. The Smith Dairy is probably 1-2 miles south of Kent Ponds, as the crow flies. It is at

the NW corner of the W. Vallet Hwy?and S. 277th St. intersection.



Good birding,



Jim Flynn

merlinmania at comcast.net




>Hi All,
>
>Jeff and I stopped at the Smith Brothers Dairy around 14:30 and there was an adult Peregrine on the last of 3 utility poles counting from
the closed green gate off West Valley >Hwy. We also had a Red-shouldered Hawk on the pilings and transformer pole near the diked pond,
just North of the dairy barns. Whether is was a different hawk than the Kent >Ponds hawk was undetermined, but I'm betting it was a
second one. There were 16 Trumpeter Swans in the field across from the dairy all but one were adults.
>
>Roger