Bird notes, v4397
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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.