Re: [cayugabirds-l] Rough-legged Hawk Dark Phase

2014-03-04 Thread Jeff Gerbracht
Dark Rough-legs are one of my favorite birds and I've noticed there seem to be more around this year. I took a quick look at my eBird sightings for these and in addition to the one on Burdick Hill, I've seen dark birds multiple times at Freese Rd, Mt Pleasant, Midline Rd. and along Buffalo Rd in

[cayugabirds-l] Rough-legged Hawk Dark Phase

2014-03-03 Thread Candace Cornell
I've been looking for ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS on Burdick Hill Road ever since Mark Chao saw them there in mid-February and I occasionally see a light phase one flying over the field sitting in a tree on the south side of the road as he described. Today as I drove by at 2: 35 PM, I did a double take.