Witness the curves for rough-legged hawk and golden eagle migration from Hawk Mtn, PA (golden colored graph for the eagle). Golden eagles are also observed from hawkwatch sites across New England each fall. Although single day counts from Hawk Mountain can reach double digits (31 birds, November 20, 2003), New Hampshire has only once reached […]
Continue Reading →Planning for THE Big Hawk Day 2011
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 […]
Continue Reading →Big Day on Pack
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 […]
Continue Reading →Where the hell are the western sandpipers?
If I don’t catch up with one soon, I might have to string this bright semi-sand that I saw at Plaice Cove a few weeks back. A good example of the variation in juv. semi-sandpipers, this little fellow stood out like a sore thumb.
Continue Reading →Hawk ID – drum-roll please
25 entries – thanks all for the fun. I enjoyed it. Only one correct answer, so no need for a hat. Congrats to Michael Thompson who correctly identified #1, #2, #3 as red-shouldered hawk, and #4 as broad-winged hawk. All are juveniles. Most folks guessed red-shouldered and were correct, but I suspect made the assumption […]
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