Today in the dead trees described by Bob E. earlier there was a Prairie Falcon and a Swanson's Hawk.
I had prairie falcon on the mind, expecting I would see one, and initially ID'd the Swanson's as the falcon, ignoring the other raptor in the tree! Later I read in my Raptors of North America book how a Juvenile Swanson's looks like a Prairie Falcon. I feel lucky to have had the chance to find that out the hard way. It was fun to watch the hawk perch close to the falcon, causing it to move to a different portion of the tree. For about 10 minutes, the hawk pushed the falcon around until they both took flight, going in different directions. Other birds of interest were Western Grebes, ~120 Great Egrets (could not find a snowy though I tried), many GB Herons, 4 Avocets, Baird's Sandpipers, there were about 6 species of Shorebird that I could separate including all the peeps. Alex Watson ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
