Each fall, there’s an extravaganza of birds-of-prey flapping past the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. Situated atop Blue Mountain, the eastern edge of the Appalachian ridges and valleys, Hawk Mountain’s location is right under one of the major North American flyways for migrating raptors, including hawks, eagles, and falcons of all stripes.
According to the Sanctuary, about 20,000 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘hawk mountain’
October 25, 2009
It’s Raptor Time
August 24, 2008
a Berks County hike: Pulpit Rock & Pinnacle Rock
Pennsylvania is full of scenic opportunities for hiking, and today we visited one such spot in Berks County in east-central GSE. Situated along the east slope of the Blue Mountain (atop which rambles the Appalachian Trail) near Hamburg are a number of hiking trails that lead up the mountain to Pulpit Rock and Pinnacle Rock, [...]
