On an afternoon trip to Orange County between rte 94, Indiana road, and skinners lane, john grant, miles grant and I had approx. 12 rough legged hawks, 4 dark phase w several kiting, 10+ N. Harrier including 2 grey ghost, 30+ red tail hawk, (no falcons), 100 horned lark (saw no buntings or longspurs) and 15 short eared owls (all of those on Indiana road) -- eleven in the air at one time! -- there also had been a snowy owl seen on Indiana earlier (we did not see it) nor did we find one on a drive down Missionland Road (large mixed flock of juncos, goldfinch, tree and song sparrows there) -- before dusk we hit the platform at oil city road and added a few more harriers, one rough legged, several hundred Canada geese flying over, and taking flight at 430 or so, another dozen or so SEOW. I would be surprised if our tally for short eareds today was not 30 truly amazing.
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