My Dad and I spent the day at the Beamer Hawkwatch! Actual birding! Fun birds today:
Common Merganser: 20+ birds
Northern Pintail: ~20 birds (not bad for no water)
~25 Tundra Swans
Eastern Bluebird: overhead migrant
Great Blue Heron: 2 (together, migrants!)
Common Raven (migrant along the cliff edge).
Raptors:
7 Bald Eagles
10+ Red-shouldered Hawks
Rough-legged Hawk
Plus a steady flow of expected raptors, the most numerous being Red-tails and Turkey Vultures. Not a bad day at Beamer for March 15.
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With that said, there was less birds but more action not far away at the Braddock Bay Hawkwatch in NY. They had less than 100 birds, but nailed Golden Eagle, Northern Goshawk and a BLACK VULTURE before the day was done.
At least I can say I was right about the "early" BLVU post a few days ago... Maybe Thursday will bring one into Ontario.
http://www.blog.peregrineprints.com/2011/03/early-migrant-black-vultures.html
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