Yesterday morning Joan, Suzy (Joan’s cousin) and I headed up to the top of Pack Monadnock to watch for migrating raptors. Each year, during September and October, NH Audubon maintains an observatory there to count migrating raptors.
We spent roughly three hours there along with Henry (the NH Audubon staff member) and a small group of other raptor watchers. Dozens of other folks (hikers and sightseers) also passed though.
All told, we saw 30-40 raptors but none close enough for good photographs. I had the 50-500 mm lens mounted on the tripod and at time amused myself photographing other birds and the foliage.
At one point a flock of more than a dozen cedar waxwings alit in the mountain ash trees just down slope from our position and began to chow down in the abundant berries. I took more than a dozen photos hoping to catch more than one bird with berry in beak, all to no avail. In every frame I caught only a single bird in action!
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