GSBAS Saturday 09/22/2018

Our walk today was scheduled at Robert Moses SP. The weather was very nice. We had northwest to North winds all morning after a cold front. These are excellent conditions for Hawk Watching at the platform.

We walked the boardwalk to the lighthouse  and back to the Hawk Watch platform. We  had a just a smattering of the usual suspects in the way of land birds. The sit at the platform made up for it. Thanks to the good winds there was a steady stream of raptors coming through. As usual Merlins made up the bulk of the migrating raptors. During our time at the platform I counted 18 Merlins, 3 Peregrines, 4 American Kestrel, 2 Northern Harriers and 4 Osprey. All in all a very good morning.