[nysbirds-l] Governors Island: SWAINSON'S HAWK (Sat., 26-Sep-2020)

[Ben Cacace]

Apologies for the belated report to the list. This hawk was spotted on the
morning of Saturday the 26th of September. I was taking detailed notes of
the hawk perched on a Black Cherry tree off the SE corner of Fort Jay
before I realized I needed to get an image. It was 150 yards to my backpack
and back and luckily the hawk was still there. It stayed for a total of ten
minutes. It lifted without my seeing it go as I ran to the other side of
the tree to get a view of its back, wings and tail.

Here's the checklist with two photos from a point and shoot Cybershot
camera. A few birders went to search for the hawk on Saturday but it was
not relocated:

   - eBird Checklist (Governors Island — 26 Sep 2020)
   

Back in December 2015 a SWAINSON'S HAWK spent over 2 weeks around Staten
Island's Freshkills Park and the previous NYC sighting on eBird was at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on 1 November 1987:

   - eBird Map: SWAINSON'S HAWK (centered on NYC)
   


Here's my posting of the hawk on iNaturalist
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Ben Cacace
Manhattan, NYC

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ARCHIVES:
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2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L
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Please submit your observations to eBird:
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[nysbirds-l] Governors Island: SWAINSON'S HAWK (Sat., 26-Sep-2020)

[Ben Cacace]

Apologies for the belated report to the list. This hawk was spotted on the
morning of Saturday the 26th of September. I was taking detailed notes of
the hawk perched on a Black Cherry tree off the SE corner of Fort Jay
before I realized I needed to get an image. It was 150 yards to my backpack
and back and luckily the hawk was still there. It stayed for a total of ten
minutes. It lifted without my seeing it go as I ran to the other side of
the tree to get a view of its back, wings and tail.

Here's the checklist with two photos from a point and shoot Cybershot
camera. A few birders went to search for the hawk on Saturday but it was
not relocated:

   - eBird Checklist (Governors Island — 26 Sep 2020)
   

Back in December 2015 a SWAINSON'S HAWK spent over 2 weeks around Staten
Island's Freshkills Park and the previous NYC sighting on eBird was at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on 1 November 1987:

   - eBird Map: SWAINSON'S HAWK (centered on NYC)
   


Here's my posting of the hawk on iNaturalist
.
-- 
Ben Cacace
Manhattan, NYC

--

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/

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