Last Wednesday, February 21st, I heard then spotted a Swainson's Hawk
circling overhead in Walla Walla near Wa-Hi school. (In 2016 I spotted one
in Kittitas County near I-82 just south of I-90 on February 23rd.)

Wednesday night I let a local WW birder maven know of my find. They said
SWHA aren't around before April, but birds fly, and they'd look. I replied
that the eBird Range Map shows a Swainson's Hawk, with photographs, in
Idaho on January 24th of this year.

https://ebird.org/checklist/S159707622
(Other checklists also document that bird.)

Yesterday night I got an email from the Walla Walla maven telling me they'd
spotted a Swainson's Hawk along Byrnes Road. They were in a group of five
birders. Byrnes Road is west of Touchet, twenty miles west of where I'd
seen the Swainson's Hawk three days earlier in Walla Walla.

https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S162870354

Good Birding,
https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/
Kevin Lucas
Yakima County, WA

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