Hi all, The 13 Saw-whet Owl night was a Thurs. night all-nighter - the next night we banded 6 and had at least one more get away and that was from 7:00 - 10:00 pm. (also heard 4 Owl spp. on Friday night. Twenty is not a bad two day count for Saw-whets. Just missed beating Saturday's total diurnal raptor count.
Elliott Bedows -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 6:44 PM To: IA-BIRD Cc: [email protected] Subject: [ia-bird] HNCH 10/30 Better day today, but I don't know whether the folks from Friday and Saturday would have wanted to trade me. That was a relentless, battering wind that blew without let-up on Griffin and me all day out of the WNW-- registered wind speeds of 46.5 and 54.3 on the kestrel. Hard to hear over the radio. Nice raptor and non-raptor numbers but little diversity. Jerry and Greg had several catches at the banding station including a Krider's and a Harlan's; then their nets got plugged with masses of leaves-- leading to an equipment failure. They repaired that but shut down early to get the leaves out again. It was a very good morph day. Forgot to copy the numbers down on RTHA morphs from the count sheet. Jerry told me on the radio (one of the things that I did hear clearly) that they had a 13 Saw-whet Owl capture night this week, but I am not sure when. We still don't have our first Rough-leg-- should be soon. Northern Harrier 3 Osprey 1(the highlight I guess...) Bald Eagle 36 Sharp-shinned Hawk 18 Red-tailed Hawk 93 Total 151 Non-raptors AMWP 843 DCCO 62 AMGP 23 AMCR 149 Mark O ---- [email protected] wrote: ============= if you think that was a slow day you should try a Saturday - notice how the winds from from the north on Friday and should be on Sunday however Saturday - south winds of course. very slow day, we managed to scrape together 18, RT, a couple of harriers, a couple of shins, an adult bald , nothing special. Saturday's this season have been uniformly slow. Sue ---- Clem K <[email protected]> wrote: > Not a real active day at Hitchcock today. > > BE- 10 > SS- 7 > NH- 1 > RT- 31 > UR- 1 > > Total = 50 > > Lots of non-raptors migrating today. Included 5 American Golden Plovers > (they did a close fly-by of the tower - there are hundreds of them at Boyer > Chute and probably in all of the still flooded areas). > Clem Klaphake > Bellevue, NE > > > > > > > > --- Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as members make it! --- Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/membership.asp. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected] --- Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as members make it! --- Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/membership.asp. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected]
