My wife Tricia departed NH on Friday bound for Nashville, from where she will be plying her craft for the winter triciaroseburt.com. We planned to rendevous at Hawk Mountain, which is either 6 hours, 5 days, or a month south of NH depending on your mode of transport. Tricia chose the car and I chose the […]
Continue Reading →On September 6th, 2016, I leave NH by bicycle to travel south following the Broad-winged Hawk migration from New Hampshire to South America. All going well, I expect to cross five time zones, 40 degrees of latitude, and 5,000 miles in pursuit of the birds. Biologists at the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory in southern New Hampshire record several thousand migrant […]
Continue Reading →I opted to stay home from Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory today and do some yard work. The accompanying shot is taken from my backyard – the largest kettle I have ever seen in New Hampshire (carefully counted from a photo).
Continue Reading →Yesterday (September 17th, 2011) was the big day, with 3,500 or so broad-winged hawks migrating south past Pack Monadnock during a two hour window. The numbers: 58% of a combined 45,000 broad-winged hawks that have been tallied during the last nine Septembers starting 2003 have occurred during the September 16-19th window 2012 – mark your calendar now – Sunday September 16 […]
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