After talking about it for some time, my friend Eva finally decided to go birding and invited, Guy, Denis and I to go along on a birding day, (January 16th), that would take us to a couple of locations in search of
Owls,
Eagles and a
Yellow-headed Black bird. We ended up
not getting the Yellow Headed Black bird at Pruyn Sanctuary in Millwood NY where the bird was reported. Also missed was a
Red-shouldered Hawk that was seen earlier that morning in the nearby vicinity.
We did get a couple of
Rusty Blackbirds and ended up picking up several species for our day list including target birds like,
Short-eared Owls,
Bald Eagles, and
Orange-crowned Warbler a nice bonus was a neat looking dark
Morph Rough-legged Hawk.
We had a high number of
Red-tail Hawks with the tally being 26 for the day. Also in high numbers were
Northern Harriers which tallied at 9 that included a “Grey Ghost”. We finally called it a day when the light began to fade and talked about another outing, hopefully that will occur sometime soon.
After talking about it for some time, my friend Eva finally decided to go birding and invited, Guy, Denis and I to go along on a birding day, (January 16th), that would take us to a couple of locations in search of Owls, Eagles and a Yellow-headed Black bird. We ended up not getting the Yellow Headed Black bird at Pruyn Sanctuary in Millwood NY where the bird was reported. Also missed was a Red-shouldered Hawk that was seen earlier that morning in the nearby vicinity.
We did get a couple of Rusty Blackbirds and ended up picking up several species for our day list including target birds like, Short-eared Owls, Bald Eagles, and Orange-crowned Warbler a nice bonus was a neat looking dark Morph Rough-legged Hawk.
We had a high number of Red-tail Hawks with the tally being 26 for the day. Also in high numbers were Northern Harriers which tallied at 9 that included a “Grey Ghost”. We finally called it a day when the light began to fade and talked about another outing, hopefully that will occur sometime soon. 
Sounds like a day full of fun!
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