Thank you, Dick. I had signed up at the site to volunteer but I had not
heard back yet.
Can you suggest the best time to go and/or places to stay? I was thinking
it might be an easier drive from Palm Springs than from the coast?
Ronda
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 7:51 PM dick <
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I've been to Borrego Springs for the Hawk Watch several times. It's
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amazing. The "master watch organizer", Hal Cohen, does a very good job as
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communicator- both on site and sending social media information.
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Check out this website for complete information and sign-up for this
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year's info.
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www.abdnha.org/hawkwatch.html
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Dick Porter
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From: Ronda Stark <rondastark18 at gmail.com>
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Date: 3/3/24 4:55 PM (GMT-08:00)
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To: Kevin Lucas <vikingcove at gmail.com>
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Cc: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Early Swainson's Hawk
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Hi Kevin,
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Have you ever been down to Borrego Springs for the Swainson's Hawk Watch?
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I was thinking of going down there this year. The peak migration is around
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mid- March there so I'm surprised we have SWHA already.
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Ronda
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On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 3:55 PM Kevin Lucas <vikingcove at gmail.com> wrote:
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Last Wednesday, February 21st, I heard then spotted a Swainson's Hawk
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circling overhead in Walla Walla near Wa-Hi school. (In 2016 I spotted one
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in Kittitas County near I-82 just south of I-90 on February 23rd.)
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Wednesday night I let a local WW birder maven know of my find. They said
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SWHA aren't around before April, but birds fly, and they'd look. I replied
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that the eBird Range Map shows a Swainson's Hawk, with photographs, in
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Idaho on January 24th of this year.
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https://ebird.org/checklist/S159707622
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(Other checklists also document that bird.)
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Yesterday night I got an email from the Walla Walla maven telling me
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they'd spotted a Swainson's Hawk along Byrnes Road. They were in a group of
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five birders. Byrnes Road is west of Touchet, twenty miles west of where
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I'd seen the Swainson's Hawk three days earlier in Walla Walla.
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https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S162870354
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Good Birding,
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https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/
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Kevin Lucas
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Yakima County, WA
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*Qui tacet consentire videtur*
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