April 4, 2004

AMERICAN TRIP 2004 . WEDNESDAY 24TH MARCH

Got up to leave our hotel for the trip north back to New York , while i was stood outside the hotel a car pulled up & out got the govener of New York Hilary Clinton , i was then told that this was the hotel that they tried to assasinate president Reagan at a few years back .
Anyway we headed north towards Philadelphia .

BIRDS SEEN ON ROUTE .

COMMON GRACKLE = 2
CANADA GOOSE = 11
NORTHERN HARRIER = 1
RED TAILED HAWK = 7
Stopped for lunch at the Delaware travel plaza where there were the following .

COMMON GRACKLE = 6 ( PHOTO )
RING BILLED GULL = 2

On to the city of Philadelphia the home of American independence where we saw the Liberty Bell , Independence Hall & the grave of Benjamin Franklin , we then went to the city hall steps made famous in the Rocky films

BIRDS SEEN

AMERICAN ROBIN =3
NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD = 1 ( PHOTO )
Onwards towards New york , the folowing birds were seen on route .

TURKEY VULTURE = 8
RED TAILED HAWK = 3
MUTE SWAN = 3
AMERICAN COOT = 1

We arrived back in New York in the late afternoon after going through the states of Pennsylvania , Delaware the first american state , New Jersey where we went through Holboken the birth place of Frank Sinatra .
In the evening we went to eat at Times Square & had a look at Broadway .

Posted by Stonegrouse04 at April 4, 2004 9:48 AM