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Blue Jay foraging foraging in an old Cemetery.

Light morph Rough-legged Hawk takes flight at sunset. These are very migratory and are winter visitors to the Grasslands in Washington County.

Squirrel, parallel front feet are the narrower ones in the back. Rabbit have the same back foot pattern but front feet run perpendicular in the back.

I got my first Short-eared Owl in quite some time.

Female Northern Harrier scoping out its next meal.

They love apples.

Female Snowy Owl movies on [finally, it was freezing] into the sunset.

Relatively small bird Blue Jay ish ,but much stockier. One of the three falcons frequenting there.

I got another shot of a Merlin feeding on a Robin. I wasn't aware of the serrated beak.

I caught this female Snowy Owl alongside the side of the road back in December over in Washington County. The headlights of an approaching car are reflected in her eyes.

This shot of mine got picked up by NYSDEC and shared on FB and Instagram, @bchasen_nature

One of my photo friends went up and got shots of it.

Great Blue Heron not giving up.

I caught this Merlin launching from its perch after it just finished a meal of songbird. Washington County Grasslands.

I got a shot of this Rough-legged Hawk, young male dark morph, with a satellite transmitter attached. Found out it was deployed a couple of weeks ago in Addison County Vermont by The Rough-legged Hawk Project [on FB]. It has made its way to the Washington County Grasslands now and will migrate...

Female American Kestral launches

Merlin perched on a branch peering for prey. A falcon about the size of a Robin.

Fixedheeln and I braved the roads (not bad up or back) to find quite a busy day. Sunway, Wild Air skied great early. We headed down Pine Knot, not fine. Hullaballu had very irregular bumps but very edgable. Headwater was nice, Hawkeye skied great very soft snow little bumps. Tannery was smooth...

Peregrine Falcon feeding on a Starling in Washington County

Bald Eagles are so incredibly large.