DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 02, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 60 60 54207 Osprey 0 0 46 Bald Eagle 1 1 98 Northern Harrier 0 0 146 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 3 3207 Cooper's Hawk 2 2 282 Northern Goshawk 1 1 17 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 352 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 20016 Red-tailed Hawk 3 3 1491 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 5 Golden Eagle 0 0 63 American Kestrel 0 0 438 Merlin 0 0 39 Peregrine Falcon 0 0 32 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 12 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Mississippi Kite 0 0 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 4 Total: 70 70 80456 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:30:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 5.5 hours Official Counter: Seth Cutright Observers: Rodney Laura Weather: 0-3mph was the wind speed, and when we did have wind it was mostly Southeast. Visibility was very clear, and cloud cover was just about 100% all day. It did rain about four times for a very short time each time. Raptor Observations: 60 Turkey Vultures made up most of the the flight today. It was a very slow flight, but a Northern Goshawk was nice to see. Non-raptor Observations: 7 Bufflehead flew around and were nice to see. Predictions: They say for Tuesday that it will be West-North-West wind around 12mph. If it does that, or it has any kind of North wind then it should be good. Just a note to and for those who want to come out to the count. With the time change I start at around 8:30am now...since just a few days ago it would have been 9:30am. So start time is between about 8:30-9:00am. Then depending on flight and weather end time is now around and between 2:00-4:00pm ======================================================================== 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/
