<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Calm day at Deer Lagoon, Whidbey Island. Among highlights were 12 while pelicans; seems late that they're still in the area. 100s of wigeons, pintails, green-wing teals. A few dunlin and killdeer, usual gulls (short-billed, ring-billed, glaucous-winged), and some brant added to the mix. But an oddity:</div><div><br></div><div>RED-TAILED HAWK with BLUE WING TAG: The hawk flew low over part of the lagoon and a bright blue circular tag/patch on the shoulder (at about the humerous) was very conspicuous. It landed in a willow and I was able to get close for a view with 10x binos. The "tag" was about 3" in diameter and had a bold, black double pointed arrow drawn across the diameter; no numbering was evident. The blue circle was attached to the hawk's shoulder with a circular two-piece snap-through about 1" in diameter. <br></div><div>I read online a 2016 story about hawks tagged at Seatac airport...juveniles with blue that are released in Bow, Skagit county. Does anyone know if that program continue?s<br></div><div>thanks</div><div>david armstrong<br></div><div><br></div></div>
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