DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 21, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 38 49729 50475 Osprey 0 3 46 Bald Eagle 0 40 88 Northern Harrier 2 51 126 Sharp-shinned Hawk 35 1432 3004 Cooper's Hawk 2 150 237 Northern Goshawk 0 10 10 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 285 286 Broad-winged Hawk 0 81 20015 Red-tailed Hawk 4 953 1069 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: 81 52919 75884 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 10:15:00 Observation end time: 14:30:00 Total observation time: 4.25 hours Official Counter: Seth Cutright Observers: Patrick Mulawa, Rodney Laura Weather: Another slow day. After a few hours of rain early I was able to go down for the last few hours of the count. it was slow with mostly South-West wind, and late in the day the count area also had East wind. Visibility was good and cloud cover was around 40%. Wind was 5-10mph. Raptor Observations: Not much to report, 38 Turkey Vultures and 35 Sharp-shinned Hawks made up most of the count. Non-raptor Observations: Many American Robins were around. A few Horned Larks also flew over. Black and Mallard Ducks also went over. Predictions: It might start out slow again on Thursday. Looks like rain could happen in the early afternoon. Might be good as the wind changes to the North-West right before and after the rain. ======================================================================== 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/
