Greetings,

Below are some results as emailed to me regarding the winter raptor survey being conducted by DEC in the Coxsackie area of Greene County. Of all the birds mentioned, I found an amazing 1. It was a dark-morh Rough-legged Hawk that was spotted in the first scan. Better luck next time? Currently under the weather I will have to see if I am up for another survey which is tomorrow night.

~Chad
From Paul Novak…

“And, some stats from the 2nd survey.

My overall sense was that we saw fewer birds on the 2nd survey and looking at all the sheets that was indeed the case.

We monitored 12 sites on the 2nd survey and the number of sites recording the 4 main species was:
RTHA 5
RLHA 4
Harrier 5
SEOW 4

Eliminating likely recounts and including multiple individuals seen at the sites we had:
5-9 RTHA
4-5 RLHA
4-6 Harrier
6-7 SEOW (though we know that is an undercount as the folks that were stationed for trapping saw additional owls that would have brought the total to either 8 or 9)”