<div dir="auto">It's called a Gyrfalcon.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Michelle Landis</div><div dir="auto">Coupeville </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 12, 2023, 1:15 PM Nelson Briefer <<a href="mailto:nreiferb@gmail.com">nreiferb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I hesitate to mention Mabey raptors. I contacted some one on this list and stated that I will not mention this sighting. However, what I observed does put this raptor into the Maybe spectrum. May 11– about 1:30. On south Ershig road, maybe call it Bow area, I drove under a large raptor, about Red- tailed hawk size. The hawk was a grey in ventral areas and was flapping. I did not notice the length of the tail. Therefor, the tail must not have been accipiter long. Therefor , I am thinking a grey RT hawk. That was a five second look. Then about a few miles later from Church Road, a large grey raptor flying off my window at about 100 feet elevation. The wing beats were of a Gry Falcon. The tail was not accipiter long. The sighting was broadside. The shape of the wings were Gyr Falcon. On both sightings I pulled over a few minutes later hoping to catch the raptor in the sky. The second sighting was also about five seconds. I do have experiences with Gry Falcons in flight. Nelson Briefer- Anacortes.
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