Registrar: Sandra Maury
Participants: 3 registered participants
Weather: 40’s-50’s F, Wind mainly northwest, light
Bird Species: 30
On the day of the NYC Marathon Linnaean members ventured forth to the State Line Hawk Watch, N.J. for a successful day of hawk watching. Thirty-three Red-shouldered Hawks were recorded, although we saw only a few of them. A Northern Goshawk was another important sighting. It was interesting to watch the social or unsocial dynamics of the resident Peregrine Falcons, Common Ravens and a Red-tailed Hawk, but they do respect their safe boundaries of interaction. Amazingly we drove to and from the site without experiencing heavy traffic.
Species Lists
Birds
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Golden-crowned Kinglet
European Starling
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
American Goldfinch
Dark-eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
