Hawk Watch

One of the classes that Cassandra is taking is on birds. She has a science requirement and thought this looked interesting. For extra credit she could go on a hawk watch, so we all went. Except for the drive, first we went to Fryeburg Me. then another 30 min to hawk mnt. ( I forget the town), it was really quite nice. The people where very accommodating and considerate. The instructor could tell what a bird was when most of us couldn't even find it with binoculars! He tried to teach us the basics about Buteo, accipiter, falcon, eagle, osprey, harrier, vulture, and owls.
I would do it again if we stayed closer to home, larger binoculars would be nice too and maybe a high powered telephoto lens on a nice camera(guess I am dreaming). We saw mostly turkey vultures, a phoebe, a northern flicker, and red tailed hawks.

The picture that looks like it is of a swamp is of a swamp. I just liked how it looked.

Same photo only zoomed in to show the hawk.