Subject: [Tweeters] Harts Pass Hawk Owl
Date: Oct 18 20:33:12 2008
From: Rolan Nelson - rnbuffle at yahoo.com


Greetings Tweeters,
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This AM Ryan Wiese and I left Tacoma at?0 dark 30 to get up to Harts Pass and a try at the Northern Hawk Owl.? Just before reaching the pass we met up with Dennis Paulson and Netta Smith, then proceeded in tandom up to the Campground where we simultaniously spotted the now famous Owl busy hunting in the meadows of the campground.? He seemed more distracted by the local Gray Jays than by us and he eventually chased them from the area before disappearing himself.? We got about a 30 minute show!
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After which Ryan and I drove up to the Slate Peak parking area and Ryan immediately spotted a 100+ flock of Gray Crowned Rosy Finch in the snowfields below.? The largest flock either of us had ever seen.
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Peace,? Rolan

Rolan Nelson
Fircrest, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com

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