Terrie Smith and I spent 2 quality hours [9-11 a.m.] staring at the sky today in our Ajax backyard ...
Bald Eagle 1 - first year Golden Eagle - 1 - 2nd/3rd year Sharp-shined Hawk - 26 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Am. Kestrel - 1 Water Pipit - 1 Common Loon - 3 Crows [migrating high] - 35 Hermit Thrush - 7 Geoff Carpentier Ajax From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 21 19:05:51 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 8C3DA638C4 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:05:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 10941 invoked by uid 30); 21 Oct 2006 23:00:51 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21 Oct 2006 19:10:51 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark (21 Oct 2006) 938 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:05:52 -0000 SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 21, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 429 50571 52462 Osprey 0 29 217 Bald Eagle 0 46 161 Northern Harrier 5 199 704 Sharp-shinned Hawk 477 2355 6628 Cooper's Hawk 13 236 382 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 3 57 61 Broad-winged Hawk 0 2503 67955 Red-tailed Hawk 1 751 952 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 5 6 American Kestrel 7 190 1825 Merlin 1 10 37 Peregrine Falcon 2 11 40 Unknown Swainson's Hawk 0 5 8 Total: 938 56968 131438 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:30:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 7.5 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan Observers: Chuck Owens, Don Sherwood, Josh Haas Visitors: Jim Maki Ron Harkness Gloria Harkness Al Kostyniak Joe Bartell Kenn Kaufman et al. from the Toledo area Bruce and Linda Roberts Bob Pettit Tim Smart Weather: Overcast skies and drizzle dominated the early part of the count today. The day brightened somewhat by noon but remained quite overcast until mid afternoon when some clearing occurred. Winds were very light throughout the day and from the southwest switching more to the southeast late in the afternoon. Raptor Observations: Even during the drizzle early in the day there was a considerable movement of Sharp-shins under way. This would increase once the showers let up and skies brightened at midday. There was a steady and quite heavy movement for much of the remainder of the day including a tally of 190 Sharpies during the 12-1 hour. With the light winds the birds were scattered throughout the entire sky often with lines of five or six and even up to a dozen birds coming across at once. Numbers of other species were quite low with only a couple of large TV groups noted moving well to the north of the count area. Non-raptor Observations: Large numbers of crows have been seen migrating through the last couple of days. As well today there were hundreds of Tree Swallows and American Pipits making the passage southward. =======================================================================Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/
