Counting? For Poets? What are we talking about here?? Seeing, really seeing, is done more with the heart than the head. So our hawk counts send our hearts soaring -- joining up with the raptors'. That's our game plan anyway.

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THE POETICS OF THE CAPE AND ISLANDS. Mapping the migration routes of Merlins and Peregrines on Martha's Vineyard. It's a dirty job but somebody had to do it.

MY HEAD HURTS. No, not really. Jim Tietz [Derby Hill '97] looks like he's counting with his fingers but no way... We spent a day at Derby Hill aging and sexing Roughlegs, Harriers, and working on our i.d. of adult accipiters by plumage.

YO, LET GO. Kara Donohue keeps a firm grip on a young Cooper's Hawk before the usual large crowd during the Saturday morning bander's program at Cape May.