Date: 9/28/25 9:00 am From: Andy Mason via groups.io <andymason...> Subject: Re: [hmbirds] Fw: Early October at Franklin Mountain
Kevin--
I forwarded your post to our Franklin Mt. hawk counters list last Friday
when I saw it. Birds do typically approach the lookout from the NE,
often along the I-88 corridor. However, we have checked various sites
'upstream' in that direction on promising days, and not found a
particular concentration of birds.
There were 47 broad-wings tallied that day, out of a total of 65
raptors. Broad-wings tend to follow ridges like that paralleling I-88
less than other hawks, so they could have cut south before reaching
Franklin Mt. We don't count Turkey Vultures until Oct. 1, so don't know
how many appeared.
Andy Mason
On 9/27/2025 5:30 PM, KevinMcG via groups.io wrote:
> I posted a note last week about the streams of Raptors I saw on my way
> down I 88. When relating that story to folks at the NYSOA conference,
> I was told that all of those birds would have flown right past
> Franklin Mountain. Sounds like I need to go there!
>
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Andrew Mason
13 Boylston St.
Oneonta, NY 13820
(607) 267-8491
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