Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu From: fleming@acsu.buffalo.edu (christine m fleming) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Hawk Count Summary: Hawks, up close Keywords: hawks, redtails, close encounter Message-ID: <63483@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 6 Mar 91 04:57:34 GMT References: <1991Feb25.192307.13085@athena.mit.edu> <319@dominion.edsdrd.eds.com> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Organization: ritcsh groupies annon., inc. Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu In article tjo@bugatti.siemens.com (Tom Ostrand) writes: >Maybe this is just a good year for hawks on highways :-) >Since early February, I have seen 1-3 hawks nearly every morning on >Route 1 in NJ, in the ~8 miles between North Brunswick and Princeton. >I assume that most of them are red-tails, although I suspect that one >might have been a rough-legged. > >This morning was typical: two perched hawks just off the road, actually >within a half mile of each other. > >Tom Ostrand E-mail: tjo@cadillac.siemens.com Today i had the most glorious encounter with two beautiful hawks. I was watching for my bus through the office window, and saw a hawk circling the far parking lot. Soon another joined up and they made lazy circles around and around. I lost sight of them in about 10 minutes. When i walked out to the bus, and i had just cleared the building, one of them was in the middle of a swoop and hovered a story over my head for a few seconds. The sun was so bright, and the glare from the snow so sharp that the bird looked unreal - almost as if made of gold. I could see the individual flights and tail feathers! Amazing! As the bus drove away i watched them land on the rooftop railings of the building and perch there for a while before they started off circling again! Needless to say, this was a good day!...:) ...jones PS... here in Western New York i too have seen a LOT of hawks. Mostly red-tails, i believe. (What other raptors are native to the area? I have seen others that weren't redtails, but i wrote them off as immatures... ) Also is it rare to see them paired or in close contact? I usually see them on a strip of road within sight (their's, not MINE!...:) of one another... --