DRHW- Pointe Mouillee State Game Area Rockwood, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 24, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 27 66 66 Osprey 0 16 16 Bald Eagle 0 8 8 Northern Harrier 14 20 20 Sharp-shinned Hawk 97 338 338 Cooper's Hawk 8 24 24 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 115 15258 15258 Red-tailed Hawk 27 62 62 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 24 68 68 Merlin 0 4 4 Peregrine Falcon 2 3 3 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 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 1 Total: 314 15868 15868 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:30:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 5.5 hours Official Counter: Raburn Howland, Seth Cutright Observers: Fred Kirn, Paul Cypher, Raburn Howland Weather: Weather today was clear visibility and light North or North-East winds. They were between 3-6 and 5-10MPH. Raptor Observations: Today was the best day of the past three days. Not that it was hard to do so. We started out at the normal hawk count site, Lake Erie Metropark, but at around 10:30 two counters were sent over to the second count site, Pointe Mouillee SGA. For the fist 30 mins. both sites were about the same. Then after the first full hour at the SGA it was clear that the SGA was better. It was still kind of slow, but also steady at the same time. At this site 97 Sharp-shinned Hawks were counted. 27 Red-tailed Hawks were nice to see, along with 2 Peregrine Falcons. Non-raptor Observations: Walking the tail early in the day at the Lake Erie Metropark site I was able to find a few warblers. Also one Swainson's Thrush and one Gray-cheeked Thrush. Again a good number of Blue Jays went over, (~2000). Predictions: Friday looks to be about the same, but maybe have winds more from the East. The count should be about like today. But rain is likely Saturday so birds might move a head of that. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Greg Norwood ([email protected]) SMRR- Pointe Mouillee State Game Area 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/
