Just to follow up since it hasn't been cross-posted:
Friday at 1:21 pm EDT, Hawk Counter Kyle Wright spotted a Swallow-tailed Kite
loosely traveling with Broad-winged Hawks over the South Lookout at Derby Hill.
This is possibly the same bird that passed the Hamburg Hawk Watch on Wednesday
afternoon and we were "on the lookout" for it. The bird joined Broad-wings in
a thermal and gave great looks over the next few minutes. I could still see it
in the scope five minutes later winging north up the east lakeshore on stiff,
slow wingbeats.
As noted by Kyle in his Hawkcount write-up, the only previous record at Derby
Hill was April 16, 1976.
Dave W.
N Syracuse, NY
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