Tussey Mountain Hawk Watch State College, Pennsylvania, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 06, 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 17:00:00 Total observation time: 7.52 hours
Official Counter: Adam Bradley
Observers: Bill Chambers, Jon Kauffman, Patty Gray
Visitors: Bill Chambers Patty Gray Jon Kauffman
Bill Chambers arrived in the 10:00 hour to help locate some migrating GE. He got on one pretty quickly after getting situated and another followed shortly thereafter. I greatly appreciated his help scanning. Later in the afternoon Patty Gray and Jon Kauffman from Shavers Creek Environmental Center stopped by for a visit. We got some decent looks at one of our resident RTHA zipping back and forth across the powerline cut.
Weather: Trace snow overnight. At the OP at 09:00 light snow was drifting over Tussey Mountain. WNW winds peaking in the afternoon at 50kph. Excellent visibility to 32km. Mostly cloudy skies for the entire observation effort. High temperature of 0C at 09:00 and a low of -3C by 15:00. Light snow falling off and on through the entire count. In the 10:00 hour heavy graupel fell for about 15 minutes.
Raptor Observations: TV 1 (77) SS 2 (6) CH 1 (5) RT 2 (32) GE 5 (70) Total 11 (251)
GE A 09:22, A 10:13, A 10:13, A 10:38, A 12:34
GE led the flight today with 5 coming through. The two in the 10:00 hour seemed to be travelling together. One hesitated briefly by the cut and that is when the second eagle came into view. All but one of today’s GE’s were following the west side of the ridge. In the 13:00 hour a CH and SS both came through in that order while I was taking the wind measurement. While it wasn’t a busy day, migrants were easy to spot as they were all taking the same flight line.
Bill Chambers spotted the local SSHA zipping around on both sides of the ridge. Late in the afternoon the resident RTHA was gliding back and forth across the powerline cut.
Non-raptor Observations: Canada Goose 7 Mourning Dove 2 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Common Raven 1
Predictions: Mostly sunny, with a high near 45. West wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Adam Richardson (<poecile.gambeli...>) Tussey Mountain Hawk Watch information may be found at: tusseymountainspringhawkwatch.org/
