Hi Kevin,

Have you ever been down to Borrego Springs for the Swainson's Hawk Watch? I
was thinking of going down there this year. The peak migration is around
mid- March there so I'm surprised we have SWHA already.

Ronda

On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 3:55 PM Kevin Lucas <vikingcove at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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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