Red-tailed Hawk Nest
Dick Byers, President of Westmoreland Bird & Nature Club

If you get down around the New Stanton Turnpike entrance, on the hillside, between where the ramp from the bypass comes down and the ramp to the turnpike goes up there is a huge, active Red-tailed Hawk's nest.

The best vantage point I have found is to turn around in New Stanton and come back East past the turnpike. Pull off at the end of the little Penn Dot yard and look across the roadway.

I have been monitoring it and the female is definitely, in my opinion, sitting eggs. Several weeks ago I watched both male and female at the nest, then both fly off to a tree not too far away where they mated. Of course, I was lucky enough to have film in the camera and the long lens ready.

Hopefully I will have these pictures and some other new ones on my web site, Westmoreland County Bird Club, soon.