Sunday - September 24, 2006 - Driving tour looking for raptors

Time: 8:00 AM until 2:00 PM
Trip Leader: George Jameson - send him an e-mail if you have questions about the outing.
Participants: Deanna Jameson - Brooke Davey - Shirley Muse - Tori Kaufman - Ed Gustamente - Jim Toews - Augustine (A spanish professor visiting at Whitman) - Rodger Shoemake - Ginger Shoemake<
To display a partial map of the route along Frog Hollow, McDonald Road, and Dry Creek click here

It was a fun outing and a beautiful day. We did not see the number of raptors that we had seen the previous year. It appears that the Swainson's Hawks are all gone south for this year and the Rough-legged Hawks are not here yet. Maybe by the middle of October we will see some. We did find a juvenile Peregrine Falcon that was harassing a great blue heron. Those kids will do anything. We also found three Wilson's Snipe in a flooded field at the south west corner of Detour McDonald roads. Here is a list of some interesting birds that we found and their ocurrance.

Raptors	Other Species
American Kestrel - 29	Great Egret - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 43	American Pipit (large flocks)
Northern Harrier - 4	Barn Owl - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1	Brewer's Blackbird - (large flocks)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1	White-crowned Sparrows - lots
Krider's Red-tail - 1 ???	Wilson's Snipe - 3