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Hello Three Sisters Students, I am now
in the middle of the third week of the Amazing Bird Race. I hope you
are enjoying my progress. I have more birds to add to the list and I
will post them Tuesday or Wednesday when I post about hawk watching. One thing I
do not remember is weather or not you have Canada on the bulletin
board map. I hope you do because I will be in the province of New
Brunswick, Canada where my sister lives. We plan to be here for
about ten more days and I will be going on several birding
adventures. The first was a hawk watch that is held nearby and I
will talk more about this in the next post.
Since this is the week you go on your
hawk watch, I have chosen a raptor as bird of the week. This Hawk is
a western hawk that nests in Oregon but by now will be on it's way to
Central and South America for the winter. There is a slight possibility that you could see one on the
hawk watch this week as they could be migrating from Southern Canada, which is the northern limit of their range. Another thing to
mention concerning this bird, it is in the Buteo family and several
of the hawks in this family have light and dark plumage. Good luck
with this beautiful bird. I photographed him in Burns, at the farm
of a friend of mine. These birds had built a nest in a large pine
right in their yard.
Well we had a difficult time with this one because the juvenile bird looks so different than the adult dark morph. Your hint about the migration did help us narrow the search down.
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