Blistery Wonderland

With the addition of 27 observations over the week, plus a boatload of older reports from our dictated members, we are now officially only thirty-four away from tying with our all-time record! Yahoo! We should definitely break that record this week with the raptors I photographed today and what I will be seeing in the next week.

Observation of the Week goes to @the-catfinch for a fantastic image of an intermediate morph Harlan's Hawk. No one can tell me otherwise, but these birds do not belong in the Red-tailed Hawk complex, some of these adults are so obviously distinct, how can they not be species? So, they might hybridize with Red-tails, it wouldn't be any different from Asian Buteos. If you see any Harlan's, be sure to photograph them, they are on the coolest raptors out there.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102856240

No Snowy Owls or Gyrfalcons yet on iNat, but they're in the area according to eBird, so keep your eyes open. We only have two weeks left before this project officially ends, time's a tickin'. Besides that, I don't have much more news to give. If you're participating in a Christmas Bird Count this week, photograph the raptors.

הועלה ב-דצמבר 16, 2021 05:12 לפנה"צ על ידי birdwhisperer birdwhisperer

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