DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 20, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 70 49691 50437 Osprey 0 3 46 Bald Eagle 0 40 88 Northern Harrier 0 49 124 Sharp-shinned Hawk 17 1397 2969 Cooper's Hawk 0 148 235 Northern Goshawk 1 10 10 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 285 286 Broad-winged Hawk 0 81 20015 Red-tailed Hawk 2 949 1065 Rough-legged Hawk 0 3 3 Golden Eagle 0 24 24 American Kestrel 0 124 429 Merlin 0 13 35 Peregrine Falcon 0 18 32 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 Mississippi Kite 0 0 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 3 4 Total: 90 52838 75803 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 14:45:00 Total observation time: 6.75 hours Official Counter: Seth Cutright Observers: Fred Kirn Visitors: Thanks for all who came out on a nice but slow day. Weather: Today was another slow day. Part of the day had South-West wind, and the last part of the day had East-South-East. It was around 5mph all day, with clear to hazy visibility. Cloud cover was around 75% most of the day. Raptor Observations: Thanks again for all of those who came by today on this warm but slow movement day. Allan Brushaber with daughter Pam stopped by today...but this time he did not find any Golden Eagles... But Pam did get to take part in the slow day by clicking one of the Sharp-shinned Hawks that came by, so that was fun. Everyone else who came by thought it would be a good day with the lighter wind and warmer temps, but it stayed slow all day. One Northern Goshawk was seen at the end of the day, 3:15pm, and was the last bird of the day. Non-raptor Observations: More Red-winged Blackbird and Rusty Blackbird flocks were going over today. An American Pipit did fly over today calling as it went. Predictions: For those of you interested in coming by the count, I now start at around 9:00-9:15am. Sunrise being close to 8:00am. Wednesday should be warmer so it could be good for birds to move, or could be slow again if winds are South or South-West. ======================================================================== 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/
