One of the best places in the world for watching raptor migration is Hawk Mountain in eastern PA. This year on the best day they saw 7500 broadwinged hawks !!! That's mind boggling !

Yesterday two Bald Eagles swooped out of the trees and over the slough at the intersection to the county road. Just now in the Hemlock behind the house there's a baldie, yearling. We have a preserve on the other side of the bay.

Great Horned Owls in the trees before dawn. I see them flying now and then, but hear them all the time.

I've got kestrals in the powerline rightofway behind my house, redtails come through spring and fall. Peregrines have killed pigeons in the neighborhood and eaten them (they next on the buildings in downtown Long Beach) Coopers and sharpshins also keep the pigeons down at my elementary school and I even saw a merlin nail an English sparrow in front of the house.

Up Raptors!

For those who think that NYC has no wildlife - www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,239472,00.html

Given an eagle's talons, this could also be posted in "spear hunting and fishing"! Way cool!

I work in downtown Boston, and often spend a minute or two looking for/at some RTs that nest on some 20+ story buildings in front of my building. Over the years I've seen them clip pigeons and squirrels, mostly on the Common but sometimes in the Granary (old burial ground with the likes of Sam Adams and Ben Franklin's parents). Always neat to see. A window washer guy I know has had a few close encounters with peregrine falcons on some of the taller skyscrapers. Apparently, they can get quite testy when their nests are approached...

It could be worse. At least he's not trying to wash windows in norhern forests. Goshawks would knock him right off the scaffolding or take off his scalp if he was tied on. Feisty buggers!