Date: 11/9/26 9:25 am From: Shelley Page <shelleypage.imagine...> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Wed Nov 11 for Franklin Mtn Golden Eagle Field Trip!
*Update from Wes Blavelt !!*
I will lead a Cayuga Bird Club field trip to the Franklin Mountain
Hawkwatch near Oneonta this Wednesday, November 11th. This hawkwatch was
established in 1989 and is sponsored by the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society.
Overlooking Oneonta and the Susquehanna river valley, this site is famous
for Golden Eagle, Red-tailed and Broad-winged Hawk fall migration.
At 2000’, the hawkwatch site can be cold and windy. Wednesday’s forecast
for Oneonta is to expect temperatures to range in the 40’s with light winds
from the W/NE. These conditions could produce a flight of migrating eagles
and hawks but you never know. Please dress accordingly and bring a folding
chair (optional), snacks and a scope if available.
The drive time to Franklin Mountain is about 2 hours. Plan to meet at the
East Hill parking lot in front of College Town Bagels by 8 AM. I can
provide rides for 3 people but if more birders arrive we will need a second
vehicle. We will plan to return to Ithaca by 4 PM. I will be at the CBC
meeting tonight and am available to answer any questions you may have about
this trip.
Shelley Page
*she/they/ki*
313-550-1437
261 Coddington Road Apt. B
Ithaca, New York 14850
https://uuma.zoom.us/j/2065380867 "All that you touch you Change. All that you Change changes you. The only
lasting truth is Change. God is Change." Octavia Butler, The Parable of the
Sower
