SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 14, 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 8062 20853 22638 Osprey 1 36 183 Bald Eagle 4 42 181 Northern Harrier 28 167 667 Sharp-shinned Hawk 114 1754 8459 Cooper's Hawk 12 148 321 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 58 80 88 Broad-winged Hawk 4 37 69572 Red-tailed Hawk 101 325 688 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 1 2 2 American Kestrel 10 139 1201 Merlin 0 10 36 Peregrine Falcon 0 21 56 Unknown 8 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 2 Total: 8395 23614 104102 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:30:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 7.5 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan, Paul Cypher Observers: Bruce Roberts, Darlene Friedman, Paul Cypher Visitors: Don Sherwood Frank Kitakis Steve Kitakis Ron and Gloria Harkness Linda Roberts Richard and Ann Naber etal. Pat Mulawa Charlene Brennan Weather: Skies were sunny for much of the morning today with cloud cover gradually pushing into the area, becoming completely overcast by mid afternoon ahead of weak frontal system. Winds were more or less non-existent until late morning becoming light south-southeast and then light south by mid afternoon. There were some showers by days end. Raptor Observations: There were very few migrants on the go early in the day with a quick build up of birds once it warmed up a bit and the breeze kicked up. The vulture movement was heavy and non-stop for about a four-hour period from late morning to mid afternoon until the advancing system set them down again with many of those first masses of birds passing right overhead or just to the north. Later groups would drift more to the north on the breeze and into areas northward that were still in sunshine. Early in the afternoon somewhere in a group of a couple hundred birds, we surpassed our 700,000th vulture tallied in the history of the count! Also reaching a milestone today was Red-shouldered Hawk with our 15,000th counted since the beginning of the watch. Red-shoulders in general saw their best day of the season thus far with quite a few excellent views of this attractive raptor. Also highlighting the day was our second Golden Eagle in as many days. Non-raptor Observations: ======================================================================== Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/ _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm
