Hawk Watch Field Trip Results

Thirteen Blue Mountain Audubon members, 4 Pendleton Bird Club members and a couple from Lower Columbia Audubon in the Tri-Cities spent the morning on Bald Mountain searching for migrating hawks.  It was the first time we have tried a hawk watch, and I was pleasantly surprised with the results - we saw 39 raptors in less than four hours.  There were also numerous red-crossbills, yellow-rumped warblers, pine siskins, robins, Steller's jays, a few mountain chickadees and an assortment of other mountain birds.  Here is the breakdown of the raptors seen:

    American kestrel - 3

    Sharp-shinned hawk - 4

    Cooper's hawk - 8

    Accipiter species - 1

    Red-tailed hawk - 12

    Buteo species - 4

    Turkey vulture - 8

Thanks to all of those folks with good eyes who could identify the little black specks in the sky!     Ginger