DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 05, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 5 27 27 Osprey 2 8 8 Bald Eagle 2 5 5 Northern Harrier 0 20 20 Sharp-shinned Hawk 45 290 290 Cooper's Hawk 2 19 19 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 20 67 67 Red-tailed Hawk 1 24 24 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 3 9 9 Merlin 3 12 12 Peregrine Falcon 0 1 1 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Total: 83 482 482 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Greg Norwood, Seth Cutright Observers: Dan Lumm, Greg Norwood, Rodney Laura, Seth Cutright Weather: Today the winds again were light from 0-10MPH. Mostly from the South-East or East-South-East. Cloud cover was 10-60%. Visibility was clear to hazy. Raptor Observations: Good counts of 45 Sharp-shinned Hawks and 20 Broad-winged Hawks made the day good. Two more Bald Eagles went over along with 3 more Merlins. 83 was the total for the days count. Non-raptor Observations: Lots of Monarch Butterflies along with Ring-billed and American Herring Gulls were being seen on the move all day long. A good number of Rough-winged and some Barn Swallows were also going past. An Eastern Kingbird and a Common Loon also went by. Predictions: Flight for Sunday should be about the same since we are still in the same kind of weather set up as the first few days. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Seth Cutright ([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 information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
