The Big Twitch If you drove down River Road in Walpole the week of Monday, November 8th, you might have marveled at the band of camera carrying paparazzi to be seen standing in a cornfield each day of the week, apparently gathered in vain.  No rock star or politician to be seen, surely they were […]

For about ten years now I have received every Christmas a greeting card from a famine relief organization.  The card has a picture of an African family standing beside a farm animal, usually a cow or a goat, and inside are written the words “happy Christmas from Dad”.  His present to me for Christmas is […]

Do you love hawkwatching, and are you organized?  If you answer yes to both questions, then you might want to plan for the following.  It’s well known that the broad-winged hawk migration is temporally compressed relative to other hawks.  For instance, sharpie’s migrate into late October and November and their numbers plot a much gentler […]

The Big Day (published in the Monadnock Shopper September 21st, 2010) By the time you get the shopper in the mail, the big flight will likely be over.  An average of 4,300 broad-winged hawks fly by the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory each September based on data from the last ten years, with the bulk of […]