Tweets - I drove from Pomeroy down towards Lower Granite Dam, over in
Garfield county, on Tuesday evening. I was driving through the rolling
wheat fields between 8:45 and 9:30, as it began to get really dark. There
were many GREAT HORNED OWLS.

But I also saw something I've not heard of before. There were Red-tailed
Hawks that appeared to be roosting for the night just on the power poles.
The neatest were a pair that I saw just before 9:30 p.m., when it was way
too dark for a Red-tail to fly safely (thus I assume they were there for the
night). The power poles have a pair of cross-arms bolted to the top of the
pole, one on each side of the pole, such that the cross-arms are maybe 10
inches apart. There was a Red-tail at the end of each of the cross-arms,
facing each other. They were close enough together to clean each other's
beaks. There was not a tree in sight, which probably explains why they
were using the power poles.

BTW - there was also a stag with the largest rack of antlers I've ever seen
on a deer - conservatively, it was a 12-point stag. Some of the points had
little extra prongs. Wow! Poor guy has probably been spotted by every
hunter in Garfield County, and they'll all be heading out to that wheat
field on the first day of hunting season...

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
== http://www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
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