DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark
Brownstown, Michigan, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 16, 2010
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 2499 90535 91906
Osprey 0 5 57
Bald Eagle 2 41 179
Northern Harrier 4 115 377
Sharp-shinned Hawk 39 1120 6075
Cooper's Hawk 15 385 622
Northern Goshawk 0 3 5
Red-shouldered Hawk 6 140 145
Broad-winged Hawk 0 208 79571
Red-tailed Hawk 44 393 641
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 4 4
American Kestrel 0 94 667
Merlin 0 15 39
Peregrine Falcon 0 12 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 17
Prairie Falcon 0 1 3
Swainson's Hawk 0 0 5
Total: 2609 93071 180345
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 8 hours
Official Counter: Rob Payne
Observers: Darlene Friedman, Don Sherwood, Josh Haas, Patrick Mulawa,
Rodney Laura
Visitors:
A very nice group of nature lovers enjoyed a good part of the day. This
group was lead by one of our Counters, Josh Haas. All-in-all about a 15 of
our weekend regulars, as well as some new faces, helped keep an eye out.
Weather:
A perfectly cloudless day, even the haze cleared out in the afternoon.
Temperatures were warm topping out at 74f. Winds continue to come in from
the north west, very slowly in the morning, and gaining strength later with
a westward shift.
Raptor Observations:
It was hard to find birds with a solid blue sky. Only 2,609 were seen today
of 7 species. The Turkey Vulture flight line was weird today as they did
not kettle much, but streamed slowly in small numbers all day. Normally we
have our Turkey Vulture kettles appear over Candada to our southeast, but
today nothing of note was found that far out. Many more hawks were seen
today with all the extra eyes of our weekend crowd. 39 Sharp-shinned Hawks
and 44 Red-tailed Hawks is an improvement from yesterday. 4 Northern
Harriers were seen today, 3 of which were males.
Non-raptor Observations:
American Crow numbers were not as evident as yesterday, still hundreds were
noted. A very large cloud of thousands of passerines, most likely starlings
and blackbirds, was seen over Canada.
Predictions:
A continuance of today's weather. Even if the raptors are slow it will be a
beautiful day outside.
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Report submitted by Greg Norwood ([email protected])
SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at:
http://www.drhawkwatch.org
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