Scan for Eagles!

Put your Programmable Scanners to work, folks!

This year Vermont Fish and Wildlife Dept placed 5 radio transmitters on young birds released from Addison, VT. We have 5 frequencies and were hoping that the HAM operators around the state, and/or New England, would be willing to monitor those frequencies for us. If you detect them we ask that you contact us here at Dead Creek in Addison so we may follow through on tracking down the birds, especially during the winter months. Currently, we only know the location on one bird, so it would be very helpful to have people on the lookout for others.

There are 2 signals which you could hear - the first (and ideal) signal is a slow beep, indicating the bird is alive and in your area. The second is a rapid beep indicating the transmitter has been motionless for 8 hours or more.

If there is any chance you could help us out with this, please let me know. Ideally, we would like to have folks throughout New England monitoring the frequencies, as the birds are likely to travel.

After the new year (2007), please contact David Sausville whom I have cc-ed on this email. The frequencies are listed below.
Amy Alfieri OR David Sausville
Hack Site Coordinator
VBERI
Dead Creek WMA
966 Route 17 West
Addison, VT 05491
(802) 349-8805