Everyone, If anyone has been paying attention, you will have noticed that the remnants of Hurricane Fran are supposedly passing just to the south and east of Lake Erie.
Despite this track, I think some interesting hurricane birds could still appear on Lake Erie and / or Lake Ontario. To date there has been widespread sightings of Sooty Terns on inland lakes everywhere from northern Florida into northern Georgia, and today a Sooty Tern was seen in Tennessee! There has also been two different reports of Brown Noddy (both in Georgia?), including one in a backyard standing beside a swimming pool! This bird eventually died. So far no reports of inland Magnificent Frigatebirds, but this could be a potential species since Hurricane Fran briefly crossed the northeast corner of the Gulf of Mexico. (Note that frigatebirds, for whatever reasons, are often first reported long after the storm is gone.) Upcoming weather reports for southern Ontario are consistently calling for N winds in the days ahead, with SW winds predicted for Saturday only. This might be a good day for either the Tip of Point Pelee (the best wind for this location) or Waverley Beach near Fort Erie. Good birding, Alan Wormington, Leamington ________________________________________________________________ Get your name as your email address. Includes spam protection, 1GB storage, no ads and more Only $1.99/ month - visit http://www.mysite.com/name today! From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 8 21:34:11 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from taiga.com (mugwump.taiga.com [68.165.54.133]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2FE448017 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:34:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 12207 invoked by uid 525); 9 Sep 2004 01:27:19 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Sep 2004 09:09:19 -0400 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:02:22 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: Cranberry Marsh (08 Sep 2004) 23 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:34:11 -0000 Cranberry Marsh Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 08, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 4 9 10 Osprey 2 35 65 Bald Eagle 0 11 11 Northern Harrier 0 5 11 Sharp-shinned Hawk 11 49 63 Cooper's Hawk 1 6 6 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 0 67 111 Red-tailed Hawk 2 22 34 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 3 27 43 Merlin 0 11 14 Peregrine Falcon 0 0 1 Unknown 0 6 16 Total: 23 248 385 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 12:00:00 Total observation time: 4 hours Official Counter: Jerry Walsh Observers: Dan Kaczynski, Doug Lockrey, John Brett, King Baker Visitors: 10 visitors along with 9 observers-- great day Weather: overcast day with northeastern winds; TUV=2 Observations: 2 Osprey; 4 TV; 11 Sharp-shinned; 1 Cooper's; 2 Red-taileds; 3 Am.Kestrel Wilson's Warbler, great Egret ======================================================================== Report submitted by John Douglas Lockrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cranberry Marsh information may be found at: http://www.gtrw.ca
