Sept. 28th - Pringle Creek at foot of Brock St. Whitby: Dunlin - 2 Baird's Sandp. - 2 Semi-palmated Plover - 3 Lesser Yellowlegs - 5 Pectoral Sandp. - 5
also in my yard in Ajax - lots of thrush activity including the most "Olive-backed" Grey-cheeked Thrush I think I've ever seen. Geoff Carpentier Ajax, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 28 19:48:22 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from taiga.com (mail.taiga.com [204.11.32.182]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB1463AF1 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:48:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 21733 invoked by uid 30); 28 Sep 2006 23:44:09 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28 Sep 2006 19:09:09 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark (28 Sep 2006) 2052 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:48:22 -0000 SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 28, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 240 941 941 Osprey 5 183 183 Bald Eagle 4 99 99 Northern Harrier 17 440 440 Sharp-shinned Hawk 135 4015 4015 Cooper's Hawk 15 127 127 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 4 4 Broad-winged Hawk 1584 61402 61402 Red-tailed Hawk 20 177 177 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 1 1 American Kestrel 32 1584 1584 Merlin 0 26 26 Peregrine Falcon 0 29 29 Unknown Swainson's Hawk 0 2 2 Total: 2052 69030 69030 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:30:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 8.5 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan Observers: Jim Maki, Raburn Howland Visitors: Will Weber Weather: Conditions today were partly to mostly cloudy with some extended sunny breaks in the afternoon. Winds were moderate but brisk from the northwest. Raptor Observations: The flight was surprisingly active early in the day with good numbers of Broad-wings coming through beginning in the second hour of the count. In fact much of the Broad-wing movement for the day was before noon. Otherwise the migration was dominated by Turkey Vultures, which were still moving in small groups until early evening. For the day 2,052 birds of 9 species were seen. Non-raptor Observations: An increase in Golden-crowned Kinglets and Red-breasted Nuthatches has been evident the last couple of days. =======================================================================Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/
