On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM Barbara Knox <
<0000df92bf258bd5-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> 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)
> > **************************************************************
>
