On January 31 I made my sixth trip to the Black Dirt region to look for the Ferruginous Hawk discovered two weeks ago.
I'm batting .500, succeeding three times to see the bird, once at a large distance only, once pretty close, and once very close. It looks like the best way to see the bird close is to arrive on the area by around 8:15 and drive slowly up and down Onion or Celery. The bird is often seen perched boldly in a tree right along the road. Today I saw it about here: 41.370102, -74.426911. Later it perched near 119 Celery, about here: 41.364916, -74.423115. The woman there is very friendly to birders. Later it hunted successfully over the fields east of 93 Celery, about here: 41.367525, -74.415704. I've seen it there on other trips. There is a nice Stewart's here: 41.398049, -74.357277. Turning off route 6 at the corner 41.398009, -74.358585 is the obvious way for me to drive to the area. Bob Lewis -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
