Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!udel!princeton!siemens!bugatti!tjo From: tjo@bugatti.siemens.com (Tom Ostrand) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: redtails (was Re: Hawk Count) Keywords: raptors, breeding, hawks, redtails, Buteo jamaicensis Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 91 19:21:46 GMT References: <1991Feb25.192307.13085@athena.mit.edu> <319@dominion.edsdrd.eds.com> <63483@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991Mar7.113719.11197@newcastle.ac.uk> Sender: news@siemens.siemens.com Lines: 19 >>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 >>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 [numerous other comments on hawks, etc. deleted] Well, now even the New York Times has noticed the red-tails! Yesterday's Sunday Times actually had an editorial about the wildlife in New York City, and mentioned three red-tailed hawks that have been seen along the Henry Hudson Parkway, between G. Washington Bridge and the Boat Basin. Also mentioned the several peregrine pairs that nest in various parts of the city. Tom Ostrand E-mail: tjo@cadillac.siemens.com Siemens Corporate Research Phone: 609-734-6569 755 College Road East FAX: 609-734-6565 Princeton, NJ 08540-6668