DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 20, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 79 331 331 Osprey 0 47 47 Bald Eagle 6 116 116 Northern Harrier 44 212 212 Sharp-shinned Hawk 274 4286 4286 Cooper's Hawk 17 125 125 Northern Goshawk 1 2 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 2 2 Broad-winged Hawk 10066 75208 75208 Red-tailed Hawk 14 216 216 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 112 501 501 Merlin 4 21 21 Peregrine Falcon 0 12 12 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 16 16 Prairie Falcon 0 1 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 3 3 Total: 10619 81099 81099 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Rob Payne Observers: Patrick Mulawa, Raburn Howland, Rodney Laura Visitors: Quieter than a Hawk Fest but still over 50 people stopped by to watch the action. Weather: Good weather continued today with moderate winds from the south east. Cloud cover gave us a nice all day backdrop, and despite the threatening look of those clouds we did not experience any precipitation. All in all a good day to be out hawk watching. Raptor Observations: We had a good push today of all the expected species, only a fourth of Sunday's super push. Best migrant raptor today was a single juvenile Northern Goshawk that made a pass overhead at about 10am. Broad-winged numbers dropped but still contained over 10,000. We had a total of 10,619 for the day of 11 species. Non-raptor Observations: Predictions: Tomorrow is supposed to be hot and windy. Weathermen are predicting heat in the upper 80's and winds topping 30mph. The winds are supposed to shift from our great south east winds to south west winds. Which would push our migrants further north than we can see from our count site. Plus the high heat will create some tall thermals which makes it hard to spot high flying hawks. Rain is predicted Wednesday through Friday. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Greg Norwood ([email protected]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.drhawkwatch.org _______________________________________________ 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/
