Folks: Another good evening of birding in a blistering, cold Easterly... The following were seen tonight at Exeter lagoons:
Common Loon (1) Hooded Merganser (5) Red Breasted Merganser (2) LONG TAILED DUCK (1) Greater Yellowlegs (1) Am Pipits (3) Dunlin (about 10) Great Blue Heron (1) HORNED GREBE (1) Red Head Duck (4) Lesser Scaup RingNecked Duck Bufflehead (6) Shoveler Mallard Ruddy Duck Canada's Redtail Hawk (2 flyover) Exeter lagoons are a mile and a quarter to the west of the intersection of highways 4 and 83 approximately 30 miles north of London in Exeter. Turn south at the cemetery which is Airport Line road and drive to the second gate on the left. Park without blocking the entrance and walk in. Just a reminder that you are required to possess and display on your dashboard an annual permit that is obtained at the town office during business hours at no cost. Town office is at the intersection of Main St and Sanders St. Good Birding.. Rick Thornton From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 22 19:08:01 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from taiga.com (mugwump.taiga.com [68.165.54.133]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB0147E58 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:08:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 31373 invoked by uid 525); 22 Oct 2004 23:17:39 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 Oct 2004 07:10:39 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark (22 Oct 2004) 3502 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:08:01 -0000 SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 22, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 2645 44938 49268 Osprey 0 27 244 Bald Eagle 0 38 181 Northern Harrier 8 61 344 Sharp-shinned Hawk 50 2141 6500 Cooper's Hawk 11 310 523 Northern Goshawk 1 11 11 Red-shouldered Hawk 45 428 475 Broad-winged Hawk 0 7 185382 Red-tailed Hawk 724 3513 4328 Rough-legged Hawk 17 39 39 Golden Eagle 1 10 11 American Kestrel 0 120 999 Merlin 0 10 51 Peregrine Falcon 0 15 34 Unknown 0 0 0 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 2 Total: 3502 51668 248392 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 15:30:00 Total observation time: 7.5 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan Observers: Fred Kirn, Raburn Howland Weather: Todays conditions continued overcast in keeping with the trend seen over the last week or so. Winds were generally moderate from the east-southeast. Observations: A good lift off of vultures took place from the general area that they were seen to put down in north of the count area yesterday. Those numbers were augmented by a steady flight of TVs for the remainder of the day. The rest of the hawk flight was dominated by the largest Red-tail movement so far this fall and included an adult Kriders. The strong Rough-leg flight also continued today and if these early numbers are any indication, the final tally for this species should be impressive. Also of note was the passage of half a dozen Monarchs. =======================================================================Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/
