Several birders yesterday mid afternoon witnessed a major Broaswinged hawk flight that for these parts is spectacular.
From a Park Slope to Prospect and then Greenwood cemetery, the numbers seen ranged from 5 Broadwinged hawks to above 100 . But the numbers for the latter count is conservative as many birds were so high it becomes a "dotwatch"..This species typically migrate in this way in dense kettles.
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"It is the glistening autumnal side of summer. I feel a cool vein in the breeze, which braces my thought, and I pass with pleasure over sheltered and sunny portions of the sand where the summer's heat is undiminished, and I realize what a friend I am losing." – Henry David Thoreau
