Forwarded from Ryan Evans, HNC official counter. According to Mark Orsag this was the earliest triple digit flight of Broadwings at HNC.
Folks, What a Friday the 13th it was today. It started slow with nothing before 10, but after that it may have been the best Broad-wing flight this early in the season for the watch. Mark will know. It started with a kettle of five and then a bit later there was another kettle of about 20. Then another of about 15 and by 1130 we had 78 Broad-wings for the day. the next few hours were slow, but at about 430 I told Jer we needed 3 Broad-wings more to get to 100 Broad-wings for the day. One showed up and a minute later a second. then three more and ended up with another kettle of about 40 over the next ten minutes or so. Included in this kettle were an osprey, a bald Eagle, 2 Sharp-shins, and a Coop. This of course caused me to stick around a bit longer. Well 530 arrived and only one broad-wing and a Sharpie. I gave it a few more minutes and decided to call it at about 545. Well as I was walking to the barn I watched another kettle form just above the barn starting with 10 and slowly adding more to a total of 21. Totals for the day were: OS: 3 BE: 2 SS: 5 CH: 5 BW: 162 SW: 3 RT: 3 ML: 1 Ryan --- 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/PayDues.aspx. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected]
