>From about 11:45am to 12:45pm, I did some sky watching today in the area of the Cornell Business and Technology Park. Not nearly as many migrating raptors as yesterday.I think they are all Northwest of here. (Braddock Bay Hawk Watch - Rochester - has counted some 4,000+ Broad-winged Hawks, as of an 11:00am posting to Geneseebirds-L); however, those that I did see began medium to high in altitude and then very rapidly became cloud-scraping high! All raptors were migrating in a general SSW to NNE direction.
Totals during this time are: 4 Osprey 2 Sharp-shinned Hawks (1 a mere speck in the binoculars, scraping the bottom of a cloud) 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawks 1 American Kestrel 6 COMMON LOONS (at least one was extremely high, disappearing into the base of a cloud; all of these are migrating SSE to NNW; these birds are essentially migrating from the Chesapeake Bay region to well into Canada by today's end). Again, polarized sunglasses are must! Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
