I've had a great Hawk Watch season. I've enjoyed the birds and the company of my fellow Hawk Watchers. Hawk Watchers are a great group of people who are for the most part very different then regular birders. Identifying and counting Hawks at a long distance is a specialized skill that you can't learn from a field guide. You have to get out there and just do it. It takes a lot of time out in the field to learn how to ID the birds in all wind and light conditions. You end of spending a ton of time with people from all walks of life. I'm never sorry for the time I put into the watch each year. We are only 2 dozen birds away from our goal of 10,000.
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