Date: 3/12/26 5:46 pm From: Thomas Filip <thomasfilip0660...> Subject: Tussey Mountain Hawk Watch (12 Mar 2026) 11 Raptors
*Tussey Mountain Hawk WatchState College, Pennsylvania, USADaily Raptor
Counts: Mar 12, 2026SpeciesDay's CountMonth TotalSeason TotalBlack
Vulture000 Turkey Vulture0728 Osprey000 Bald Eagle12225 Northern Harrier001
Sharp-shinned Hawk01215 Cooper's Hawk077 American Goshawk000 Red-shouldered
Hawk01920 Broad-winged Hawk000 Red-tailed Hawk13137 Rough-legged Hawk111
Golden Eagle8131140 American Kestrel055 Merlin022 Peregrine Falcon000
Unknown Accipitrine002 Unknown Buteo011 Unknown Falcon011 Unknown Eagle001
Unknown Raptor000 Total:11239286Observation start time: 07:00:00
Observation end time: 17:00:00 Total observation time: 10 hoursOfficial
CounterBill Chambers, Thomas FilipObservers: Debra Rittlemann, Nick
Bolgiano, Robert McLaughlinVisitors:Ron, CindyWeather:A cold and windy day
with a low of -1.4℃ in the morning and a high of 2.7℃ in the afternoon.
Consistent NW winds at 12-19mph for most of the day with some stronger
gusts above 20mph. Cloudy in the morning but cleared up quickly between
14:00-13:00.Raptor Observations:8 GOEA spotted today.*
*adult*
*07:14, 07:14, 07:16, 09:05, 12:31*
*unknown 10:01, 12:04, 13:13*
*3 GOEA were spotted by Bill early in the morning before 08:00. Most likely
they put down yesterday when it started to rain and thunder in the
afternoon and were eager to go first thing in the morning. Afterwards we
would get a GOEA about every 1-2 hours until 13:13. The afternoon was slow
with no GOEA, or other raptors, seen after the last one.*
*Surprisingly, a light morph RLHA also flew past at 08:48 heading SW on the
N side of the ridge, the first and most likely only of the season. We also
had 1 BAEA and 1 RTHA.*
