[birding] Swans near Brownsville, Eagles near Halsey, leucistic Red-tailed hawk near Wichita KS

[Steve Seibel]

Hi all-- on the 5th of December I spotted about 250 white swans-- presumably
mostly Tundra Swans-- about 3 miles SW of Brownsville, in a field bordered
on the south by "Lake Creek Drive" and on the east by "Creek Drive".  On the
7th of December I spotted 5 Bald eagles of various ages plus some Ravens, on
a field full of sheep just N of Halsey, bordered by American Drive on the
south and by 99E on the east.  On the 6th I saw one Bald eagle flying
westward across I-5 just S of Diamond Hill road, possibly leaving a roost in
the Coburg Hills as it was early morning.

Check out this leucistic Red-tailed hawk I re-discovered near Wichita KS
this November 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37889666@N03/4118838702/in/set-72157622714480441/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37889666@N03/4118838548/in/set-72157622714480441/

Look how different his (or her) plumage was when I first discovered it about
a year ago (January 2009) in the same location:


http://www.aeroexperiments.org/images/A/A1043Cr2L7R10.jpg


Steve Seibel, Corvallis
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