Robbie Fischer called. She just had the Gray Hawk close to the Carpinteria
Sanitary District Plant along Via Real.

On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:36:05 -0000, "dikagolovatchoff"
wrote:

>On my 3rd trip to Santa Claus Lane I followed excellent advice to hang out near
the cute store "SALT". I got there around 10 this morning and fairly shortly
saw a white car with two people armed with a spotting scope. They were from the
Bay area and had info of a sighting just a short while ago. Sure enough I
followed them and they quickly had the gray hawk in their scope perched on a
cypress tree looking west toward Padaro Lane just to the right of the railroad
tracks. I could see it in my binocs as well. After 10 minutes or so it flew
off and was shortly seen on an orange post near the railroad crossing. I walked
in that direction, and then turned back, when suddenly I looked up and saw the
hawk perched directly above me in a tree. It was there only a few seconds, then
flew across the road and perched on the chain link fence. It sat there long
enough for me to get a couple of seconds of video and then flew away toward the
freeway. This was at 11:12 AM. I'm very happy to
>have a few closeup views though no real photos.
--
Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA
"It turns out we're very good at not seeing things" - Jack Hitt