[cayugabirds-l] Raptors around Ithaca, Mon/Tues 9/9 and 9/10
Late on Monday morning, just when the winds were shifting from northerly to southerly, Tilden and I saw six BROAD-WINGED HAWKS over the Dryden side of Sapsucker Woods. Two birds flew west quite low over and possibly into the treetops. Two rose on a thermal and drifted south. One glided fast and very high on pointed wings straightaway to the south. One flew east. Now I am looking forward to seeing what Broad-winged Hawk liftoffs or passages we might see on Friday. We found almost no other migrants on Monday, except for one Magnolia Warbler. Also, on Tuesday, we saw an immature BALD EAGLE flying north at about 5 PM over Tutelo Park off of Route 13A in Ithaca. Mark Chao -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Raptors around Ithaca, Mon/Tues 9/9 and 9/10
It's fascinating that the Broad-winged Hawks had apparently been roosting together, yet went so many different directions when they took off for the day. I wonder if they were hunting rather than migrating, and whether they would somehow gather again later to roost or migrate.--Dave NutterOn Sep 11, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Mark Chao markc...@imt.org wrote:Late on Monday morning, just when the winds were shifting from northerly to southerly, Tilden and I saw six BROAD-WINGED HAWKS over the Dryden side of Sapsucker Woods. Two birds flew west quite low over and possibly into the treetops. Two rose on a thermal and drifted south. One glided fast and very high on pointed wings straightaway to the south. One flew east. Now I am looking forward to seeing what Broad-winged Hawk liftoffs or passages we might see on Friday. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! --
