The article linked below actually came out on PA Wilds and PSO’s (Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology) Bird Lore back in September, but I was busy hawk watching that week and planned to share it later. Then I suffered an injury (that’s a topic for another post), and just wasn’t writing since.
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Hawking
I really wish we called it Hawking. Like birding, but more specific.
While hawk watching season is pretty much over for me with a nice final day this past Saturday that including two Golden Eagles, nine Bald Eagles, two Red-shouldered Hawks, one Merlin, and a good dose of Red-taileds, for some hard core folks, standing on the mountain while snow showers come toward you from the next ridge is still worth the small number of hawks and eagles to be seen. Part of the draw is the chance to see a Goshawk or Rough-legged.
And of course, there are spring hotspots as well! So, you can learn more about it by checking out HawkCount.org and I’d be honored if you read my little 2,000 word article about this mad hobby by clicking right here.
Image featured: Broad-winged Hawk flying by the lookout © David Brown; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library
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