• Winter Hawks

    Winter Hawks

    It’s October and folks are perched on mountaintops throughout Pennsylvania watching the raptors parade south. Even on our mountain, I can sit for hours on a breezy October day and count dozens of raptors flying past. Officially, fall raptor-watching begins in mid- August and doesn’t end until mid-December, but the largest numbers and diversity of…

  • Year of the Sinking Valley Eagles

    I learn that a pair of bald eagles is nesting on the other end of our mountain. My Amish friend has spent time watching them from afar across a steep, wooded ravine on State Gamelands #166.