<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I've been to Borrego Springs for the Hawk Watch several times. It's amazing. The "master watch organizer", Hal Cohen, does a very good job as communicator- both on site and sending social media information.</div><div dir="auto">Check out this website for complete information and sign-up for this year's info.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">www.abdnha.org/hawkwatch.html</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dick Porter </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphon</div></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Ronda Stark <rondastark18@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 3/3/24 4:55 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Kevin Lucas <vikingcove@gmail.com> </div><div>Cc: Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Early Swainson's Hawk </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Kevin,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Ronda</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 3:55 PM Kevin Lucas <<a href="mailto:vikingcove@gmail.com">vikingcove@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">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.)</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">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.</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br><a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S159707622">https://ebird.org/checklist/S159707622</a><br>(Other checklists also document that bird.)</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br>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.<br><br><a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S162870354">https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S162870354</a><br><br>Good Birding,<br><a href="https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/">https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/</a><br>Kevin Lucas<br>Yakima County, WA<br clear="all"></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">Qui tacet consentire</span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"> videtur</span></font></b></div></div></div></div></div>
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