Birding sometimes is similar to fishing. You often hear the “you should have been here yesterday” meaning that there may not be many birds today but, wow, yesterday was really good. Somehow it never is the right time.
That was true at the Chestnut Ridge Hawk Watch last week. Our group visited last Saturday, Sept 14th hoping to see a lot of migrating Broadwing Hawks. We were at the hawkwatch site for about 1-2 hours and saw about 40 hawks. Hawk activity picked up later in the day the official hawk count for that day was 1,536 Broadwing Hawks. Maybe we should have been later in the day.
But we really should have been there two days later on Monday, Sept 16th. The official count on Monday was over 8,500 broadwings.
Just like in fishing we were there on the wrong day. Should have been there on Monday.
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