Join us for our February Lunch & Learn presentation with Clay Sutton. Clay was the Plenary speaker for our 50th anniversary conference in November in Duluth, MN and we’d like to share his fabulous presentation with the wider hawkwatching community!
Clay Sutton will reflect upon his own 50 years of watching hawks, primarily at Cape May, New Jersey, but also at many of the key raptor watches throughout North America and beyond. He relates “What a long, strange trip it has been,” and how in his wildest dreams he never expected to see, in his lifetime, the changes that he has witnessed. Many changes have been good and for the better, and some not so much. We have benefitted greatly from emerging resources, and have been the benefactors of amazing advances in optics, information, and technology. We have all seen changes in the composition of raptor flights, and changes in the very expectations of what we may see. We have experienced significant shifts in the migration phenology and winter ranges of hawks. But what hasn’t changed is the energy, dedication, and enthusiasm of those who annually staff their posts, climbing to mountain outcrops, urban overlooks, sandy beaches, and lighthouses at land’s end to monitor and celebrate the annual passage of birds of prey. Clay will conclude that the 21 st Century may have brought great changes, but that shifting winds will never diminish the need, or our passion, for what we do.
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