[Tweeters] mystery bird by Mt Rainier
jt bell
jbtbclimbers at gmail.com
Sun Oct 8 12:34:25 PDT 2023
Agree, we saw a male and female Northern Harrier there yesterday.
John/Tracy Bell
On Sun, Oct 8, 2023, 12:30 PM Kevin Lucas <vikingcove at gmail.com> wrote:
> Distant male Northern Harrier I just saw from our yard fit that
> description, including the lack of markings with my first views. After a
> few seconds I got good views and the markings became evident.
> I'd spotted it as I was watching a Turkey Vulture thermalling and gliding,
> working its way southward. I'd kept watching the TUVU for a few minutes,
> hoping some other birds would join it. The harrier was my reward.
>
> Good Birding,
> https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/
> Kevin Lucas
> Yakima County, WA
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> On October 8, 2023 12:20:27 PM Elaine Thomas <ethomas at salud.unm.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hiking Burroughs trail by Sunrise yesterday afternoon, I was watching
>> several ravens and a red-tailed hawk high over the bare hills when I got a
>> frustratingly brief look at a bird joining them - soaring, lazily chased by
>> ravens, made a twisty dodging maneuver and disappeared from my binoc view.
>> Quite pale (I saw all underside, maybe a bit of upper wing), but not bright
>> white, maybe cream/beige, slender build, smaller than the redtail, maybe
>> smaller than the ravens. It made me think of something like a prairie
>> falcon, but I didn't see any dark markings. Any guesses? Thanks!
>> Elaine Thomas
>> West Seattle
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