Hawk Mountain, PA (05/13/2006)
International Migratory Bird Day began with a 7:00 a.m. walk followed by a live raptor presentation at twelve. Due to rain, it finished indoors. Thankfully the weather cleared enough by the time the program finished to enable us to make a quick trip t
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African Pied Crow front
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African Pied Crow back
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African Pied Crow side
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African Pied Crow eating, detail
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Peregrine Falcon side
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Peregrine
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Peregrine has injured wing
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Peregrine head shows 'helmet'
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Harris' Hawk. Lives in Chile and Argentina but visits the southwest U.S.
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This Harris' Hawk is not in full plumage.
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Harris' Hawk
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African Augur Buzzard. Equatorial Africa. Buteo. Small mammals, reptiles, bird. Our N.A. equivalent is the Red-tailed Hawk.
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African Augur Buzzard.
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Augur Buzzard
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African Augur Buzzard showing his colors.
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Eurasion Eagle Owl. Europe and Asia. Large, bulky, powerful. Hunts from perch. Mammals - rabbits and hares. Birds - jays to herons.
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Eagle Owl. Can kill Northern Goshawk. N.A. equivalent is Great Horned Owl but it weighs only 2/3 as much as Eagle Owl.
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Eagle Owl showing prominent ear tufts.
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Eurasion Eagle Owl's huge tangerine eyes.
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Wild Columbine, Miterwort, and Wild Geranium
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Miterwort
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Wild Columbine
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Penstemmon
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Yellow Trillium (Trillium luteum)?
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Sweet Woodruff
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Horsetail
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Wild Ginger. The flower grows on the ground and needs finding beneath the velvety leaves.
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Wild Ginger flower - detail
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Virginia Bluebells, Celandine Poppy, Toadshade Trillium
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Marsh Marigold
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Shrub Dogwood
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Yellow Trillium (Trillium luteum)?
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May Apple
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Wild Geranium
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Tiarella
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Fern spore on separate stalk growing from ground.
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Fern spore growing on middle of stalk.
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Fern spore growing at top of stalk.
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Carolina Allspice (Sweet Shrub)
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Carolina Allspice flower 5/13/06 Hawk Mtn PA
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Find the eagle
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Dogwood
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Fotherigilla 5/13/06 Hawk Mtn PA
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Seedpod of ?
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Great ground cover - a bed of white violets.
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Dutchman's Pipe Vine
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Horsetail
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Wild Azalea
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American Cranberrybush (Viburnum Trilobum)
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Redbud
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perhaps Red Trillium, Wake-Robin (Trillium erectum), yellow form? or perhaps yellow center T. flexipes?
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Indigo Bunting
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There were 6 to 10 salamanders floating in the water near the deck. They were floating head down.
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While there we saw a frog come up with a salamander piggy-backing. Too bad the frog was quicker than the camera.
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Juv. White-throated Sparrow. Before leaving Hawk Mtn. we were able to get some good pics of this species.
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juv White-throated
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juv White-throated
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juv WT Sparrow
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juv White-throated
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juv White-throated
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