Surveying grassland birds
Here’s RTPI Conservation Technician Elyse Henshaw with JCC interns Kurt and Andrew in the wind and rain today working at the Chautauqua County Jamestown Airport looking for grassland birds and ground truthing point count locations. No matter the weather we’re outside now!
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This light morph Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus) was another fantastic raptor from the Jamestown Christmas Bird Count. I spotted it sitting on this pole before it flew off to a tree and then west. I do not believe any others were seen in our circle yesterday in the constant lake effect snow.
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