Celery Farm and Beyond: Help the Mount Peter Hawk Watch

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Help the Mount Peter Hawk Watch

August 25, 2011

The Mount Peter Hawk Watch in nearby Warwick, NY, needs your help.

The watch, the third oldest continuous Hawk Watch (behind Hawk Mountain and Montclair), begins its fall count on Thursday, and Watch leader Judy CInquina needs help at a clean-upon Sunday (rain date Wednesday), plus volunteer counters.

Full info, including directions and hawk watch hours, follows.

Sunday, August 28 is clean-up day on Mount Peter. Please join us for a couple o0f hours starting 9 a.m. to pick up garbage, trim shrubs, & cut down trees to improve our site lines. Bring gloves, clippers, and saws. Repairs will also be made to our platform. More volunteers = less work for everyone, and our traditional reward is worth the effort. (Directions to site are below.)

Hawk Watch Volunteers: Anyone who would like to volunteer for half a day, a whole day, or many days, please contact me at: judycinq@optonline.net.

Everyone is invited to visit the lookout, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily, September 1 - November 15. To reach the lookout, take Route 17 through Tuxedo to 17A and turn left. Follow 17A up the mountain and into Greenwood Lake. Keep right when you reach the lake and follow 17A up the second mountain. When you reach the top, you will see a sign for homemade ice cream ahead. Turn right at the ice cream shop onto Kain Rd. and turn right again up the pot-holed dirt road to the lot or park down below. The lookout platform is but a short walk uphill from the upper parking lot.

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Directions

Directions to The Fell House
Look for white house with pillars, white barn, on west side of Franklin Turnpike, just north of Cottage Place.
Directions to Green Way entrance to the Celery Farm
Green Way is off the Franklin Turnpike, the second right heading north after the Celery Farm parking lot on the Franklin Turnpike. Parking is in the cul de sac. This is a residential street, so please drive and park considerately. Please do not block the large gates leading into the Celery Farm, and please park parallel to the curb.
Directions To Celery Farm Main Parking Lot
Parking lot is on your right, north of Cottage Place, past three houses. Please do not park on the sidewalk -- it is illegal, by state law. You could damage the sidewalk, make it dangerous for pedestrians, and receive a ticket. (Pass the word if you see anyone parking on thes sidewalk.)

About Me

About Me
Jim Wright is the author of the upcoming "Screech Owl Companion." His other books include "The Real James Bond" and large-format books about the New Jersey Meadowlands, Pennsylvania’s Hawk Mountain, Allendale's Celery Farm Nature Preserve, and the largest rainforest in Central America. He has also written two e-books on Bald Eagles (including one for Duke Farms) and one on Red-shouldered Hawks. He has written “The Bird Watcher” column for The Record since 2009. He is a deputy warden of the Celery Farm, a board member of Allendale's Lee Memorial Library, and a former trustee forThe Nature Conservancy in New Jersey.