Tweeters,

At about 11 am, an adult light morph BROAD-WINGED HAWK was with a kettle of
about 30 southbound Turkey Vultures and one Northern Harrier at the north
end of Woodland Bottoms, Cowlitz County. This is part of a pattern of
Broad-winged Hawks in this location. I saw two in similar circumstances on
September 26 and 28 of 2018. Since the wind was from the wnw, I decided
that this particular flock of TVs was going to head southeast along the
east fork of the Lewis River (just south of Woodland on I-5) as far as the
river meandered southeast to Clark County. The river turns east around
Daybreak Park, Clark County and I think that's where the raptors veer off
from following the river and continue Southeast from there. That path puts
them heading south on the west edge of Battle Ground. That was a theory I
had formulated several years ago. I'm happy to say that the theory seems
to have worked. Today, I arrived on the west edge of Battle Ground (1/2
mile north of my house) and, 20 minutes later, a kettle of TVs and one
Northern Harrier appeared and .... a light morph adult BROAD-WINGED HAWK
was with the kettle! I was super excited!

This made the Say's Phoebe that I found on Larch Mountain this morning seem
pretty average.

Keep your eyes and ears skyward!

Jim
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Jim Danzenbaker
Battle Ground, WA
360-702-9395
jdanzenbaker at gmail.com
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