Greenville, Orange County, New York; not to be confused with Greenville, Greene County, New York. Sorry to say, we don't get that sort of Golden Eagle count up this way. Although it would be interesting to compare that count to the Franklin Mountain, Delaware County, ones.
Rich Guthrie New Baltimore, New York On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Steve Walter <[email protected]> wrote: > Not an upcoming football matchup, but birds I saw a bunch of today. Hawk > watching with Gerhard Patsch and Bob Senerchia at the I-84 Overlook between > Port Jervis and Greenville, NY produced 7 migrating *Golden Eagles *(plus > one wrong way bird). That was just in a two hour span. It felt like we were > on the way to a real bang up day, but that was done in by deteriorating > conditions for the afternoon. So too was the Red-tailed Hawk count held in > check at 66, although it seems that under the best of conditions that > Red-tail numbers are far below what they were in years gone by (my first > foray into big ridge hawk watching was a 900 Red-tail day at Raccoon Ridge > about 25 years ago). Just my feeling, but it seems that northeastern > Red-tails are becoming more sedentary (rather than declining). We counted 2 > Bald Eagles as migrants, a task being made difficult by residents in the > area. One potential migrant was scratched, in an entertaining way, when we > watched it dive from above the ridge line to a tree in the valley below. > > > > On the way back, I stumbled into what appeared to be *Common Ravens* > gathering into a communal roost. While driving a little ways beyond the > Bear Mountain Bridge, I noticed a half dozen or so. Conveniently, there’s > an overlook / pull off just beyond. I took advantage of that, then watched > one small group after another come off the mountain above and fly past the > overlook. Altogether, I estimated 40-50 birds (and I don’t think any were > doubling back below the bluffs, though not ruling that out). I was not > aware of this being done by Common Ravens, but I can see it considering > their lineage. The real surprise to me is that there could be that many > around in that general area. > > > > Steve Walter > > Bayside, NY > -- > *NYSbirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> > *Please submit your observations to **eBird* > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>*!* > -- > -- Richard Guthrie -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
