Red-tailed Hawk landing on nest, Bobst Library, NYU, New York City

Weekend at Cape May

A friend and I spent the weekend in Cape May, New Jersey in the hopes of seeing huge amounts of Red-tailed Hawks, Bald Eagles, and Ospreys pass by/rest as they made their way south.

Although calendar-wise we went at a great time, there were none of these birds to be seen en masse. We overheard one park guide tell a group that the winds that weekend, unfortunately, didn’t make it conducive for migration. Our trip was a bust in that regard but the sights of other birds, the beautiful city and landscapes of Cape May, and the Atlantic Ocean well made up for it.

Saturday sights:

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Inwood Hill Park birding – April 21st, 2012

Inwood Hill Park is a beautiful 196 acre park at the northern tip of Manhattan. I visited it for the first time on Saturday. It only took about 40 minutes to reach by subway from my area of the city.

One of its resident Red-tailed Hawks soared the sky ahead of me as soon as I reached the area:

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