Latest posts tagged with #Hawkwatch on Bluesky
Profile of a hawk with short hooked bill perched on a tree branch. It has a medium-brown head, wings and tail feathers. Its breast plumage is mottled russet-brown and white.
This disgruntled #Sharp-shinnedHawk paid a lightning fast visit to my birder feeder the other day and barely missed nabbing any of the numerous feeding songbirds. Lucky for them; not so lucky for the #hawk! 🪶🌿
#accipiter #predator #bcbirds #birdsofcanada #birding #hawkwatch #birdlover
My latest science illustration assignment! Red-tailed hawk, pen and ink on scratchboard, 8x6 inches 🪶
#birdart #birding #hawkwatch #scientificillustration #sandiegoartist #birds
A Horned Lark on top of Mount Watatic in Ashburnham, MA
A Horned Lark to celebrate their reign as @aba.org 2026 Bird of the Year! This one dropped into the #hawkwatch atop Mount Watatic in MA in September 2019, a very surprising timing and location at 1800 feet! As I recall, it was eating spiders off the rocks! #birding 🪶
Merlin - Mt. Watatic / Ashburnham, MA
Red-shouldered Hawk (juvenile) - Mt. Watatic / Ashburnham, MA
American Kestrel - Mt. Watatic / Ashburnham, MA
Red-tailed Hawk (juvenile) - Mt. Watatic / Ashburnham, MA
Here's 12 of my favorite raptor images from the year 2025. It was another year full of unreal moments with raptors: 25 species across the US, including some huge counts during migration #birding 🦅🪶 (1/3). First up, some #hawkwatch birds from September. Species ID on the alt-text.
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
11/25-30 Results
While I was away our team recoded the following:
4-TV
5-Bald Eagle
1- Sharpie
32-Redtail
5-Roughleg
3-Golden Eagle
2-Peregrine
2-Merlin
3-Unknown
They also recorded 6 Whooping Cranes on the final day.
See Hawkcount.org for all results.
#birds
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
11/18 thru 11/24 Results
Several days of no birds.
1-Bald Eagle
1-N Harrier
1-Coop
1-Sharpie
3-Red-shoulder
6-Redtail
1-Rough-leg
1-Merlin
The young Sandhill Crane stayed with us until 11/23 when it joined 2 others heading south.
www.hawkcount.org
#birds
AK, RS, SACR
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
Recent results from 11/10-11/17.
1-TV
2-N Harrier
5-Bald Eagle
2-Sharp-shinnedHawk
2-Cooper’s Hawk
5-Red-shouldered Hawk
13-Red-tailed Hawk
5-Rough-legged Hawk
1-Golden Eagle
1-Merlin
2-Unknown
#birds
www.hawkcount.org
Golden Eagle, Roughleg, Merlin, Kestrel.
This week Bradley G and Travy J cover their much different, but equally wild trips across America! Southern Indiana down to Southern Texas! Birding and rock hounding! Take a listen!
#outdoors #rockhounding #birding #Texas #Indiana #travel #geodes #hawkwatch
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A collage of American Kestrels
Cape May Kestrels from October. I "only" saw 130 #AmericanKestrel at the #hawkwatch so they took a bit of a back seat to the other small raptors. Still a thrill. Yes, they were all going left! 😁 #birding 🦅🪶
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
11/9/25 Results. Cold, mostly cloudy and NNW winds. Most of the time viewed from car. 1400 Sandhill Cranes
4-TV
4-Bald Eagle
11-Red-tailed Hawks
1-Rough-legged Hawk
1-Unknown Buteo
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American Pipit, local eagle
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
Two days of few hawks.
11/6/25
1-Red-tailed Hawk
1-Rough-legged Hawk
11/7/25
1-Turkey Vulture
Horned Lark
Flo the Flamingo
Colorado the Bighorn Sheep
A collage of Merlin from Cape May (NJ) Hawkwatch
Ya like Merlins? Well no surprise, Cape May has them too. I saw over 200 #Merlin in my 3 days last month at the Cape May (NJ) #hawkwatch. (Official count was over 600.) In my notes, I wrote down that I saw 8 (!) individual birds in a single scan at one point. #birding #nature 🪶🦅😎
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
11/5/25 Results. Strong NW winds and mostly sunny.
3-Bald Eagle
2-N Harrier
1-Sharp-shinned Hawk
1- Red-shouldered Hawk
4-Red-tailed Hawk
ebird.org/checklist/S2...
#birds
Local Bald Eagle picked up bottle and flew around the hill looking for missing cap.
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
11/4/25 Results. South wind and partly to mostly sunny.
A lone Red-tailed Hawk was the only migrant.
An inversion layer created a Fata Morgana effect along the horizon this morning. The mirage distorted towers and buildings appeared where there were none.
Coop too.
A collage of Cooper's Hawks
Cooper's Hawk (juvenile)
Cooper's Hawk (juvenile)
Cooper's Hawk (adult)
The Cape May NJ #hawkwatch is an amazing site for hawks. However I always 'just missed' the big flights...until now! From Oct 15-17, I caught a huge surge of Cooper's Hawk, Sharpie, Kestrel & Merlin migration. Personally, I saw ~500 Coops in 3 days. Official count was 1,700+ Coops. 🤯🪶 #birding
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
11/3/25 Results. Sunny with WNW winds.
43-TV
1-Cooper’s Hawk
1-Red-shouldered Hawk
1-Red-tailed Hawk
ebird.org/checklist/S2...
#birds
A couple of Red shoulder shots, Snow Bunting and Lapland Longspur
Collage of a Rough-legged Hawk flyby (light morph)
Getting that first Roughie of the year is always a good feeling. This light morph #RoughLeggedHawk flew by the Cape May #Hawkwatch on October 15th, probably a little early compared to your average winter migrant. 🦅❄️🪶 #birding
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
11/2/25 Results. SW wind and good sky. Slow day all around.
2-TV
1-Bald Eagle
1-Red-tailed Hawk
1-Unknown
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Local Kestrel, “Wylie the Coati” and Willy the Coyote.
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
11/1/25 Results. Light westerly wind and mostly cloudy.
25-TV
2-Sharpies
2-Red-shoulder
6-Redtail
1-Short-eared Owl
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#birds
Having 800mm helped to get these high flying birds.
Common Loon, Short-eared Owl, Lima Lima flight team.
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
10/31/25 Results. WNW winds and variable sky
84-TV
2-Bald Eagle
1-N Harrier
1-Sharpie
1-Red-shouldered
7-Redtail
1-Golden Eagle
1-Kestrel
1-Merlin
1-Unknown
Chocolate the Moose on Frontier Air
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#birds
Merlin flight and perch, Kestrel
Collage of Turkey Vulture and Black Vulture images.
Vultures of Mt Watatic #Hawkwatch (MA). September doesn’t have many migrating Turkey Vulture but we see LOTS of locals soaring over the summit’s thermal or cruising updrafts. This year we hit a record 14 Black Vulture, our highest count ever, including 7 at once! #turkeyvulture #blackvulture 🦅🪶🌎
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
10/29/25 Results. Good sky but ENE winds. Not many raptors between us and the lake.
6-Turkey Vulture
1-Bald Eagle
Better wind tomorrow.
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#birds
Redtail, young Bald Eagle, Kestrel, Vesper Sparrow
A collage of Merlin images.
Merlins of September at Mt. Watatic #Hawkwatch (MA). One of my favorite parts of the watch is the last hour. Day hikers have wrapped up their visits and the summit empties out. Low sun makes for great lighting. And for whatever reason, #Merlin seem to be late day migrants in the East. #birding 🪶🦅😎✌️
A collage of American Kestrel images
American Kestrels migrating past Mt Watatic #Hawkwatch (MA) this September. A couple brave birds landed on the summit this fall, likely to pick off one of the Carolina Locusts that inhabit the rocky outcrops. This Sept we counted 108 migrants. Always love to see them! #AmericanKestrel #birding 🪶🦅😎✌️
A collage of Red-shouldered Hawk images
Next up the round out the buteos, Red-shouldered Hawks at Watatic #Hawkwatch (MA) in September were sporadic migrants and mostly noisy locals. Several juveniles came in close enough for pics, including a couple visits to the decoy owl. #redshoulderedhawk #birding 🪶🦅
A collage of Red-tailed Hawk images.
Red-tailed Hawks from Mt. Watatic (MA) in September. This species doesn’t migrate here until later in the fall, so we mostly get to see juvenile local birds hunting the surrounding slopes. Some of the close shots here are from a run in with the decoy owl. #redtailedhawk #hawkwatch #birding 🪶🦅✌️😎
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
10/28/25 Results. East wind and partly sunny.
1-Turkey Vulture
1-Bald Eagle
2- N Harrier
4-Sharpie-shinned Hawk
1-Cooper’s Hawk
1-Merlin
1-Unknown Buteo
ebird.org/checklist/S2...
#birds
Merlin, Redtail
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
10/27/25 Results. Another sunny, east wind day.
Only migrants were a Sharp-shinned Hawk and a Red-tailed Hawk.
Border Patrol chopper flew over us again today. My salute is shown below.
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Kestrel and flying buddies.
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
10/26/25 Results
Blue dome and east winds.
1-Bald Eagle
2-Red-shouldered Hawk
1-Red-tailed Hawk
ebird.org/checklist/S2...
#birds
Too cold to wear the new shirt from wearthemout so turned into a seat cover.
A handicapped Kestrel?
Greene Valley #Hawkwatch
10/25/25 Results. Mostly cloudy and easterly winds.
1-TV
1-N Harrier
1-Bald Eagle
1-Cooper’s Hawk
1-Red-shouldered Hawk
4-Red-tailed Hawk
1-Merlin
No sighting of border patrol chopper today.
ebird.org/checklist/S2...
#birds
Harrier, Merlin and Kestrel, Mourning Dove
