Date: 3/29/25 6:32 am From: Barbara Knox <0000df92bf258bd5-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: SCBIRDCL Digest - 27 Mar 2025 to 28 Mar 2025 (#2025-86)
Hi The web page states that bird walk this coming Tuesday is at Millbrook Marsh but this week's Community Calendar at the Gazette says it's at Spring Creek Park. Which is it?
Thanks, Barbara
> On 03/29/2025 12:00 AM EDT SCBIRDCL automatic digest system <listserv...> wrote: > > > There are 2 messages totaling 3420 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. another bird walk, Coburn Park, April 5 at 10 am > 2. Tussey Mountain Daily Summary 3/28 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:12:07 +0000 > From: "Gyekis, Joseph Peter" <jpg186...> > Subject: another bird walk, Coburn Park, April 5 at 10 am > > [cid:e6fb78d8-d033-4f4b-9357-8761ecc211f7] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:26:15 -0400 > From: B Richardson <poecile.gambeli...> > Subject: Tussey Mountain Daily Summary 3/28 > > Official Counter > > > > Nick Bolgiano > > AB > > > > Total observation time > > > > 8 hrs (288.75) > > > > Observers > > > > Jon Kauffman > > > > Weather > > > > SSW winds for the entire count at 12-19kph at 10:00. Visibility was good > for the entire count. Mostly cloudy skies for the entire survey and a few > brief periods of rain. By the end of the count at 17:00 a rain had > developed over Tussey Mountain. Low temperature of 6C at 09:00 and a high > of 15C by noon. > > > > Raptor Notes > > > > TV 7 (197) OS 2 (9) SS 2 (50) RT 2 (168) ML 1 (2) Total 14 (736) > > > > I was surprised the flight was as slow as it was considering the first S > winds in several days. I was lucky to pick up the second MERL of the season > way out on Leading Ridge soaring. It then cut out via powered flight > crossing Tussey Mountain in a matter of seconds. > > > > Two adult BE’s were dogfighting over Leading Ridge at 12:46. At 13:05 two > adults seemed to appear out of nowhere from the N of the OP to escort > another local adult BE back S along Tussey Mountain. The interloper didn’t > want anything to do with these two and retreated in a hurry S of Leading > Ridge. > > > > Non-raptor Notes > > > > 4 COLO migrated through the gap at 11:05. AMCR were the corvid of the day > flying through the cut from N to S with a tasty morsel in their beak. An > accomplice was in tow. The morsel didn’t appear to be baked goods. > > > > duck sp. 4 > Common Loon 4 > Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 > Hairy Woodpecker 1 > Pileated Woodpecker 1 > Eastern Phoebe 1 > American Crow 4 > Black-capped Chickadee 1 > Tree Swallow 2 > House Finch 2 > American Goldfinch 2 > Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 5 > > > > Visitors > > > > Jon Kauffman stopped in during the morning hours and picked us out a OSPR > and the first migrating COLO of the season. > > > > Jon Kauffman > > > > 6 hikers > > > > Next Day Forecast > > > > Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. West wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as > high as 31 mph. > > > > *Tussey Mountain Hawk Watch* > > *State College, Pennsylvania, USA* > > *Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 28, 2025* > > *-------------------------------------------------------------------* > > > > *Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total* > > *------------------ ----------- -------------- --------------* > > *Black Vulture 0 0 0* > > *Turkey Vulture 7 132 197* > > *Osprey 2 9 9* > > *Bald Eagle 0 42 58* > > *Northern Harrier 0 10 11* > > *Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 47 50* > > *Cooper's Hawk 0 18 20* > > *American Goshawk 0 0 0* > > *Red-shouldered Hawk 0 25 35* > > *Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 0* > > *Red-tailed Hawk 2 151 168* > > *Rough-legged Hawk 0 1 1* > > *Golden Eagle 0 93 134* > > *American Kestrel 0 17 17* > > *Merlin 1 1 2* > > *Peregrine Falcon 0 3 4* > > *Unknown Accipitrine 0 3 3* > > *Unknown Buteo 0 11 13* > > *Unknown Falcon 0 0 0* > > *Unknown Eagle 0 1 3* > > *Unknown Raptor 0 9 11* > > > > *Total: 14 573 736* > > *----------------------------------------------------------------------* > > ------------------------------ > > End of SCBIRDCL Digest - 27 Mar 2025 to 28 Mar 2025 (#2025-86) > **************************************************************
