You are welcome Alan :).  I am curious, do you spend a good bit of time in this area?  The reason I ask is that the only coverage that I have for our project consists of a highway speed coverage of Hwy 20 from Mt Home to Hailey, we have no off road coverage on any of what looks to be prime raptor habitat.  The hardest thing for me in this project is to find folks to cover certain areas that are out of the way from population centers where I can draw volunteers from.  Next winter, if you are interested, I could build a route out there that could add valuable data to our project data base.  The challenging part of building a route is to find the right roads that you can drive on during winter conditions, if you have spent a lot of time in this area, might you have some segments of roads that you could recommend that would be open for winter driving?  No arm twisting here, just thought you might be interested in our project enough to help with future needs :).  To give you an idea of what our project is all about, I put together a power point presentation that can be found at this link:   ecaudubon.org    which will take you to the East Cascades Audubon Society’s webpage, sponsors of the project.  Look for the picture of the flying bald eagle then follow directions to the start of the program.  There are 227 slides full of charts and maps and hundreds of excellent raptor photos.  Most of the slides have an audio track filled with information about the project and the birds that have been found, lots of ID tips too :).  Check it out on one of these cold winter days coming up! :). Good birding to you 🙂

Definitely Ferruginous! Nice! 

HI Alan,