Hawk-watchers have always been a bit crazy. Today we proved it again by watching all day at Conneaut with the temperature about 38, and the wind chill must have been in the teens. But the wind was from the south and it didn't rain -despite the 70-80% prediction. We found shelter on the north side of a building since the wind blew over scopes and made it very difficult to hold binocs steady.

We were glad to see that when hawks and vultures have been bottled up for weeks, they will definitely move in cold weather with a south wind and no rain.

Turkey Vulture    1826
Bald Eagle            1
N. Harrier                15
Sharp-shinned        47
Cooper's                 6
N. Goshawk            1
Red-shouldered    111
Red-tailed                98
Rough-legged         4
A. Kestrel                35
Merlin                        1

Leroy Schlabach, Leon Miller, Bruce Glick
at the park on the west side of Conneaut, near the Pennsylvania border


  Bruce

  Bruce Glick
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  Millersburg, Ohio



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