SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 19, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 3642 82873 84388 Osprey 0 26 234 Bald Eagle 1 49 145 Northern Harrier 2 111 486 Sharp-shinned Hawk 134 2295 7975 Cooper's Hawk 20 299 476 Northern Goshawk 0 18 20 Red-shouldered Hawk 8 327 331 Broad-winged Hawk 2 105 91088 Red-tailed Hawk 179 2069 2430 Rough-legged Hawk 2 25 25 Golden Eagle 0 10 10 American Kestrel 1 170 1727 Merlin 0 11 64 Peregrine Falcon 1 26 46 Unknown 0 0 0 Prairie Falcon 0 1 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 10 Total: 3992 88416 189456 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:15:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 8.75 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan Observers: Bob Ake, Terry Angevine, Walt Pawloski Visitors: Dave Johnston Dave English Jim Maki Pete Przybylski Weather: Today saw a mix of sun and cloud early in the day becoming mostly sunny by mid morning. The winds began light to moderate from the south-southwest gradually bearing around to the west-northwest and increasing. Raptor Observations: West component winds tend to spread the flight out over a broad area and today was no exception. The strong winds also buffeted the birds to the point that they were doing a lot of quartering back and forth as they made their way forward. Many of the birds were overhead but quite a few of the larger groups of TVs were cutting the corner of the lake on the northwest wind. It was nice to see finally some decent numbers of Red-tails appearing among the vulture streams, a harbinger of things to come Im sure. Two juvenile Broad-wings added a bit of variety to the mix. Non-raptor Observations: ======================================================================== Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/
