Went looking for both birds this morning. Gyrfalcon was on a pole at the end of the asphalt on A NE. Easiest way to find A NE is instead of taking gthe left turn into Soap Lake continue straight ahead for maybe a half mile. You will find A NE just past the turn into Soap Lake. Turn left on A NE and its maybe 5 miles to the end of the asphalt.

No owl.

Roger Moyer
Yakima

> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:36:39 -0800
> From: blair at washingtonadvisorygroup.com
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: [Tweeters] More on Northern Hawk Owl (and Gyrfalcon)
>
> I just received a great E-mail from Rachelle
> Rogers who found the Hawk Owl today (seen twice at
> 11:00 a.m. and again at 3:00 PM). She also sent
> three fabulous photos. So the bird is definitely
> there and has hung around at least all of today.
> Here are the directions from her message:
>
> NORTHERNHAWK OWL (3:00 PM):
> South(west) bound on WA 283, heading for home,
> thinking much more clearly than I had been at
> 11:15 this morning, I clocked the mileage from the
> southern end of Ephrata back to the location of
> the Northern Hawk Owl. Again, the traffic was very
> light, so I could drive below the speed limit and
> check for more details. At 12 miles from Ephrata,
> I was approaching the intersection with Adams Road
> and, flying across the road from the trees
> at?3359? up to a power pole at the intersection
> was the NORTHERN HAWK OWL, again!! I hung a u-turn
> at the intersection and then crossed to the north
> (west) side of the highway, pulled off the road,
> within 20 yards of the bird! I got out of the
> pick-up, put my camera on the monopod and stood
> out in the open to take photos of this very
> cooperative bird!! I cannot believe my luck! I
> took over 100 frames of this bird today and I
> think I got a couple of nice ones, even with the
> power pole and lines! After about 15 minutes of
> watching and shooting, I decided to head for the
> barn, completely satisfied with my today?sbirding
> trip!! As I pulled onto thehighway, I noticed that
> the bird was perched directly across from the
> milepost marker, #4.
>
> She also saw the GYRFALCON I saw last week in the
> same general area per her info below.
>
> The Grant County Gyrfalcon is stillin the hills
> East and North of Soap Lake. I located the bird on
> a power pole about a mile past the end of
> thepavement on Road A NE, near the intersection
> with Road 25 NE. This portion of the road is
> covered withsnow, but a four-wheel drive vehicle
> should have no problem, as long as youstay in the
> center of the road. Imanaged to get some distant
> photos of the Gyrfalcon before it got nervous
> andflew to a power line that runs perpendicular to
> Road A (and has no road next toit). Less than a
> mile south of theGyrfalcon, I found my Personal
> Nemesis Bird, a Northern Goshawk, perched on
> apower pole adjacent to Road A. I managedto get a
> few photos of it before it flew away, too!
>
> --
> Blair Bernson
> Edmonds
>
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