Last winter we observed a white hawk, actually a leucistic red-tailed hawk, on Rutgers Busch campus. Mike spotted him again while driving to work about a week ago. We've both been on the lookout when driving in the area. Today since the weather was nice and we wanted to get outside, we did a drive by of the area and found him. We parked and were able to watch him from a distance for a while. We also wandered around the area after he flew away but didn't get any pictures of the few birds we found.
I saw him last year and saw him again today while out walking my dog near Johnson Park. I get so excited every time I see him!
I saw him a few times in the past week on Busch campus. I typed into "White Hawk New Jersey" into Google, and I was shocked when the exact bird came up! I got a glimpse of a white hawk last year, but I pasted it off as a trick of the eyes. This is a very cool bird.
I saw an immature white hawk yesterday in Wayne NJ I was glad to find this site as this type of hawk is really SA. I knew from photos that he/she was a young hawk it caught my eye flying to land on a branch no more than 10 ft. off the ground. It perched on the branch for at least five minutes it was so up close it saw me it was like seeing it in a zoo. It was my Dad's Birthday 12/21/13 he has been gone a long time, I still miss him so much, we were very close and I think he may have sent him to say Hi I am still with you.
Last week a very healthy looking white hawk lifted off the ground from the snow in front of my car as I was driving about 10 miles per hour in a cemetery here in Hackettstown, NJ. It was absolutely magestic.
Spotted today just off Busch campus crossing over route 18! I almost crashed my car. I couldn't make sense of what I was seeing!
Wonderful to hear the hawk is still making an appearance! Glad you didn't crash your car. I remember the first time I saw it I had a similar reaction, "couldn't believe my eyes." Thanks for posting.
Seen the white hawk on way to work about 2 months on the new engineering building on Busch Campus flew across 18 right before campus drive etc .
Just saw this gorgeous hawk today (my spirit animal). It was pretty epic!