The new hats are in so pick a color that you like and place your order today. Hats are $18.00 plus $2.00 shipping and handling.

The new hats are in. Take a look at their pictures of the hats and let me know which one you wish to purchase.

This is an amazing year for winter visitors. The snowy owls and rough-legged hawks are down from Canada in force this year. We are only 15 miles south of Quebec and Ontario so we get them annually anyway, but this year the numbers are quite high. They come down if their prey species (lemmings) population is low or if the prey is unaccessable due to high levels of snow. Also we have had a large number of bald eagles wintering in the area. We even had some idiot shoot and kill an adult female somewhere close to us. The first kestrel of the new year was sighted last sunday and the red tailed hawks are all paired up so spring is rapidly arriving!

With the new year, we have changed our e-mail address to adkraptors@slic.com

The rough-legged hawks are down from Canada in force. We caught our first of the winter. It was a beautiful raptor. Roughies come south in the winter when food is hard to get under deep levels of snow or low levels of prey (mice).

Very few young red tailed hawks were seen here this year. The spring weather was quite volatle with strong winds and heavy rain. This looks like the future and it is not pretty. Maybe politicians on both sides should stop playing the blame game and start making a difference...or get out of the way,

We are in the period where very little is happening here raptor-wise. There has been rough-legged hawks, short-eared owls and snowy owls sighted in the region. So it looks like there may be huge numbers here soon. So we have spent this time polishing up our protocols for our various projects.

We started the saw whet owl banding station on the 21st of October and we have banded 18 so far. Very exciting new venture.

We started the station on the 23rd and so far we have banded 11 saw whet owls. We thought this would be a great spot to catch saw whets and it looks like we were right. Let us know if youn wish to come and participate in a night of owls. We start at sunset and go to at least 11;00 PM and sometimes later if the birds are moving through.