Date: 10/18/25 5:37 pm
From: Hawkcount.org reports <reports...>
Subject: Jacks Mountain (18 Oct 2025) 39 Raptors
Jacks Mountain
Pennsylvania, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 18, 2025
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 18 84 86
Osprey 0 2 43
Bald Eagle 2 28 112
Northern Harrier 1 14 35
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5 222 399
Cooper's Hawk 3 35 92
American Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 2 15
Broad-winged Hawk 0 6 9030
Red-tailed Hawk 9 60 133
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 3 4
American Kestrel 1 5 23
Merlin 0 2 9
Peregrine Falcon 0 1 14
Unknown Accipitrine 0 2 2
Unknown Buteo 0 0 1
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 1
Unknown Raptor 0 1 7
Black Vulture 0 0 4
Swainson's Hawk 0 0 0

Total: 39 467 10010
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Observation start time: 09:30:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 6.5 hours

Official Counter: Cindy Bickel

Observers: Darrell Smith, Diane Stewart

Visitors:
We met today, Nancy Young, a local resident who invited us to come at some
point in the future to share about hawk-watching to their senior group that
meets at the Wayne Township Recreation Building. Seven veterans from the
Chambersburg area come up to visit for a while. A Donald and Judith
Stoltzfus from the Lancaster Area were on a local retreat but came up and
spent about an hour at the watch. They were very
happy to witness the two beautiful Bald Eagles overhead.


Weather:
High cirrus clouds fully covered the sky until after 1 pm when they started
to dissipate allowing blue sky peak through. Winds were from the SE and
stayed fairly constant around 5 mph give or take, throughout the day.

Raptor Observations:
Light raptor migration on the south side of the watch until the 2:00 pm
hour when winds picked up a bit giving us 21 birds for that hour. Only two
eagles were spotted today but they were close and circling over us for at
least five minutes! As always local TV's, BV's and RT's were active today
but not counted. With today's count we have officially surpassed 10,000
birds for this Fall season!

Non-raptor Observations:
Raven's, Bluejays and a Downy Woodpecker were around the watch today. One
Butterfly was seen along with hundreds of bugs, including the ladybug
imposters, that started swarming in the afternoon. Once again saw a local
Raven escorting a migrating Red-Tail out of our air space!

Predictions:
Predicting that Darrell will never again come to Jacks Mountain Watch
leaving his lawn chair and binoculars at home! He still stayed to help out
until around 1:45 sitting on the ground and using a very small pair of
barrowed binoculars! Now that's dedication!
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Report submitted by Darrell Smith (<oleagleye...>)


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