DOVER DELAWARE – – As the summer season slowly fades and an autumn chill returns to the air in Delaware, thousands of migrating raptors will travel south over Delaware on their way to warmer winter climates. Each fall, First State raptor enthusiasts rejoice as they return to Delaware’s two established raptor migration monitoring sites, or hawk watches, to observe and count these hawks, falcons, eagles, ospreys, and vultures as they pass by.
This year’s hawk watch – sponsored by the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife, in partnership with Delmarva Ornithological Society, Delaware Nature Society and Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation – began this week at Delaware Nature Society’s Ashland Nature Center near Hockessin and at Cape Henlopen State Park near Lewes. Hawk watchers will spend nearly every day through Sunday, Nov. 30 at these two sites watching for, identifying and counting hawks.
\”There can be something new and exciting on any given day at either of our Hawk Watches, from the rare Mississippi kite to thousands of broad-winged hawks to majestic bald and golden eagles,\”said Kevin Kalasz, program manager for Biodiversity with the Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Species Research and Conservation Program. \”Peregrine falcons can be viewed on route from Cape May at the Cape Henlopen Hawk Watch.\”
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