Good morning, everyone - Last winter, many fellow birders and many photographers generously sent me pictures of diving ducks to use in a presentation for GMAS. Now I’m in need of raptor photos for a class I’ll be doing in April for OLLI-UVM (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute). The class is titled “Vermont’s Birds and Our Agricultural Heritage”. It's about changes in land use (starting WAY back, with the first known human inhabitants) and the connections between different human uses of our area’s resources and differences in the wildlife that lives here with us. There will be two indoors classes and two field trips, the first to Shelburne Farms to walk and meet with people from the Grassland Birds Project and the Outreach for Earth Stewardship, and the second to walk here at Jericho Settlers Farm and talk with the owners.

I’ve finished working on the first slides for the first class, but I’m sorely lacking raptor photos for the second. I’ve got lots of good Osprey pictures but only one good picture each of Cooper’s, Sharp-shinned and Red-shouldered Hawks, one not-great pic of a juvenile goshawk and a few blurry photos of falcons - and nothing for eagles, owls, or the area’s most common hawk, the Red-tailed. I can usually find decent photos on the web, but I really like using local photos if possible. Does anyone have pictures they’d be willing to share? I’ll include the photographer’s name on every slide, of course.

Thank you!

Maeve Kim
Jericho Center