Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!unhd.unh.edu!oz!wwf
From: wwf@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Wavell Fogleman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Hawk Count
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.200338.11913@oz.plymouth.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 20:03:38 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.192307.13085@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: wwf@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Wavell Fogleman)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Lines: 14

In article <1991Feb25.192307.13085@athena.mit.edu> kim@athena.mit.edu (Kim Carney) writes:
>This weekend I drove ~70 miles from the Mass Pike to Rt 495. I counted
>over 12 Hawks along the highway and in the median. This is
>about 1 bird per 5 miles. 
>
>I was very surprised at the number. Is this unusual? I was driving
>about 1-1.5 hours before sunset.


This number is not too unusual along the N.E. highways in winter, particularly
south of ME and NH.  The highways make for good hunting of rodents and rabbits
by Red-tailed and Rough-legged Hawks and a few Kestrels as long as the snow
has melted away.  Look for numbers to pick up as we get toward April when 
the real migration is under way.