
| Great Horned Owl
an adult Great Horned Owl, taken near a nest at Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in British Columbia in January of 2002. |

| Northern Saw-whet Owl
This owl is one of several that winters at Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary near Vancouver, BC. This was sighted in December of 2003. |

| juvenile Red-tailed Hawk
This juvenile Red-tail was spotted feeding on a Mallard near Conway, WA in December of 2002. |

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Snowy Owl
This Snowy Owl showed up on a rooftop at Discovery Park, in Seattle, WA in November of 2005. These regularly appear during the winter in eastern Washington and the Skagit Valley, but are unusual in Seattle!
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| juvenile Bald Eagle
This juvenile Bald Eagle was sighted at Juanita Bay State Park in Kirkland during one winter, being harrassed by Glaucous-winged Gulls until he had to drop his fish. This photo was taken during his retreat. |

| Turkey Vulture
Not really a raptor since it feeds on carrion, this Turkey Vulture was seen circling over Shark Reef Park on Lopez Island (San Juans), Washington in June of 2003. |

| American Kestrel
This kestrel was photographed at Hart Mountain antelope refuge, just south of Malheur NWR, Oregon. |

| Peregrine Falcon
This Peregrine was spotted near Edison, in the Skagit Valley of Washington in December of 2002. |

| Merlin
This adult male Merlin was spotted at the top of a Western Red Cedar just south of Edison, in the Skagit Valley of Washington in December of 2002. |

| juvenile Bald Eagle
This juvenile Bald Eagle was photographed near the visitor's center at Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in British Columbia in January of 2002. |

| Rough-legged Hawk
A digiscoped Rough-legged Hawk in the Samish Flats in January 2005. |

| Sharp-shinned Hawk
This young Sharp-shinned Hawk was observed staking out our feeders in our backyard near Seattle in March of 2002. |

| Osprey
One fall on Whidbey Island, we caught sight of this Osprey, who was busy fishing in a small inlet along Highway 20. |

| Northern Pygmy Owl
This young Northern Pygmy Owl was sighted in the ponderosa pine forests of northeastern Washington, near Republic. |

| Sharp-shinned Hawk
One of the sharpies hanging out in our yard in fall of 2001. |

| Northern Goshawk
An adult goshawk, sighted at Colville National Forest, near Republic, WA in September, 1997. |

| juv. Northern Goshawk
This juvenile goshawk was sighted very close to the adult above, in September of 1997. |

| Rough-legged Hawk (juvenile)
A young Rough-legged Hawk, taken in the Waterville Plateau, Washington in February of 2003. |

| Red-tailed Hawk
These hawks are a common sight along the roadways throughout the area. |

| Northern Harrier
A common raptor of wetlands and grasslands, this female was photographed at Nisqually NWR, near Olympia, WA. |

| Swainson's Hawk
This intermediate Swainson's Hawk was sighted near Summer Lake, Oregon. |

| Ferruginous Hawk
This hawk was spotted near Plush, in southeastern Oregon. |

| Bald Eagle
A digiscoped Bald Eagle in the Samish Flats in January 2005. |

| Bald Eagle
This adult was digiscoped in the Skagit Valley of Washington in January of 2005. |

| Gyrfalcon
This Gyrfalcon was another of the 6 falcons observed in the Skagit Valley during early winter of 1999. This one was photographed in Edison. |

| Burrowing Owl
This is one of several Burrowing Owl sighted at Columbia National Wildlife Refuge near Othello in central Washington during June of 1999. |

| Northern Hawk Owl
This very unusual bird visited the Blaine area in northwestern Washington, very close to the Canadian border in January of 2001. |

| Cooper's Hawk
This young Cooper's Hawk was one of two to pass through our yard during the fallof 1998. |

| Osprey
This Osprey was aslo spotted offLower Crab Creek Road in Grant County, Washington in June of 2002. |

| American Kestrel
A common sight east of the Cascades, this male was photographed in the Yakima Canyon in Washington in April of 2002. |