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Spotted & Brown Turtles, juncoes. Song Sparrow (singing)
near cottage. Puget Sound White Crown St. Clair Valley
Total 58 species.
The hawk was perched in an oak tree near
the highway opposite the cut where rock
was taken out last year on the ocean side
of the mountain. I was driving and noticed
it. I drew off the road and both Miss Bladding
and I looked at it through 8x binoculars. The
breast was toward us and the whole throat
and chest was very light, but the lower
parts very dark. When it flew the back
wings and tail looked a dark red brown.
When it perched again with its back toward
us the hind neck and back looked darker
red brown than the folded wings. From its
first perch it flew across the road &
the cuts where it disappeared for a
moment behind the cliff. When it came
out it flew down the road and perched
in a tree next the road where it comes
out on a shoulder faces, at first in full
view - then inside the tree. A Turkey
Buzzard that flew over the tree was quite
a bit larger than the hawk. The flight of
the hawk was buoyant - with steady flapping
of the long wings. The shape seemed
more slender than a Redtail. Miss G. said
the feet looked yellow.