Until around 1:30pm today, Jo Hays Vista was pretty well fogged in, but then the clouds got higher and the rain stopped and birds poured … Read More
Answers to Forest Fest Mystery Bird Quiz
This past weekend, we celebrated Forest Fest at Penn State. At the festival, the avian outreach class had a table set up that talked about … Read More
Campus Red-tail
The PSU campus has at least two pairs of Red-tailed Hawks that call it home and terrorize the thousands of squirrels and chipmunks that also … Read More
Jo Hays Vista – 120 Raptors and an up-close Kestrel
This morning I helped out with the PSU Forest Festival, and so I didn’t get up to Jo Hays Vista until a little after noon. … Read More
Jo Hays Vista – Another nice Broad-winged Count
I spent 8 hours today hawk watching at Jo Hays Vista. The weather was nice and birds were on the move, despite almost the very … Read More
Jo Hays Vista – 574 Migrant Raptors!
Today we had 574 raptors migrant past Jo Hays Vista, the biggest one-day count during the fall ever at JHV. The flight was dominated by … Read More
Baird’s Sandpipers – N. Nixon Rd
This afternoon Joe Verica reported seeing Baird’s Sandpipers on N. Nixon Rd so Drew, Josh, and I drove over there to check them out. Baird’s … Read More
Answer to Mystery Bird Quiz
About 12 people responded to the Mystery Bird Quiz I posted on September 5th. The guesses that I received comprised of seven different species; Pine … Read More
Ruddy Turnstone and banded Common Tern at BESP
Four of us went back out to Bald Eagle State Park this morning to try to find the Ruddy Turnstone again. As soon as we … Read More
10 Shorebird Species on N. Nixon Rd, Centre County
I had a large gap between classes today, so I decided to go check on the American Golden-Plovers that were found the night before on … Read More