28 entered this month's contest, of which 18 answers were correct. The raptor sitting in a south Texas field was indeed a Swainson's Hawk. This photo of a light morph adult was taken near Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park in April 2004.
Judy Murray from Chapel Hill was the name picked out of the "hat" this month and she wins a Ventures gift certificate as well as a copy of Redshank Software's Avendex Carolinas Birding database program. ( http://www.redshanksoftware.com/avendex.html )