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Pete’s tips for watching raptors

Having indentured much of my life to seining distant raptors out of the ozone, or “dot watching,” as wife Linda calls it, I thought I’d treat readers to the sum of my knowledge (i.e., a crash course in the detection of high-flying raptors).

Many birders, steeped in the tradition of spotting birds with the naked eye and then studying their subject with binoculars, are ill-equipped to enter the hawk-watching arena, where most birds are spotted, even identified,

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