Field notes, v1470
Page 259
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Marshall, 1939 Jen Comment with Albee on Umatilla Co. Ore. July 30 with my 6x Binocs at a most remarkable group of hawks. A beautiful Prairie Falcon was soaring low over the road - Longhurst shot at it with Woodsman?? 2 Large Black Eagles were a little farther away - also a Sparrow Hawk. In the distance were a pair of vultures & some Luteos. We got in the car & approached the next range, into which ran a good-sized stream. The other hawks were still in sight behind us when we saw a beautiful, long-winged Osprey flapping just above the tops of the pines where the stream entered the rut. We next drove along the stream & saw one or more crows on every pine along it. They were huddled close to the trunk on horiz. stubs - in full view. Apparently spawning fish had attracted this congregation of raptors.