Greetings,

Tonight I helped conduct a winter raptor survey in the town of Coxsackie, NY. There were many volunteers (including myself) helping an ongoing DEC study. My area was along Rte 57 and Hamilton Rd. Unfortunately for me, I had a slow site and picked up only one dark-morph Rough-Legged Hawk in an hour and a half (3:55-5:25pm). Most of the other sites had this species along with Red-tailed Hawk and DEC’s primary target species, Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl. When I get some results for overall numbers I will post them here along with some photos once they get uploaded.

~Chad