As far as I could tell (and please let me emphasize that light conditions were pretty bad) all or almost all of the Swainson's Hawks were dark morph birds. Usually I get a mix of light and intermediate and dark birds but I think there was one other time when I had all dark birds like today.
Thomas Geza Miko Claremont, LA County 909.241.3300 "With a sufficiently large sample size a correlation can at once be both very significant and too small worth discussing."--Daniel Kahneman
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 1:58 PM Mike Peralez <msperalez...> wrote:
> Swainson's and TUVUs continue to stream over north Glendora, westbound. > Probably seeing Tom's birds. 1330 -1400 hours. I've noticed that most of > the hawks have stayed just below the cloud deck but some disappear into the > clouds > > At least 53 have flown over... > > Mike Peralez > Glendora, Ca > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 1:46 PM <tgmiko...> <tgmiko...> wrote: > >> 3/11/2033 >> 1340 hours >> Non stop stream of Swainson's Hawks and Turkey Vultures over Claremont >> Hills Wilderness Park >> >> Thomas Geza Miko >> Claremont, LA County >> 909.241.3300 >> "With a sufficiently large sample size a correlation can at once be both >> very significant and too small worth discussing."--Daniel Kahneman >> >> >