SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 08, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 5 84 84 Osprey 3 78 78 Bald Eagle 1 22 22 Northern Harrier 5 100 100 Sharp-shinned Hawk 20 156 156 Cooper's Hawk 4 20 20 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 31 149 149 Red-tailed Hawk 2 85 85 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 9 96 96 Merlin 0 2 2 Peregrine Falcon 1 1 1 Unknown 0 0 0 Total: 81 793 793 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan Observers: Jim Maki, Paul Cypher, Raburn Howland, Tim Smart Visitors: Pete Przybylski Weather: Today saw most cloudy conditions with early morning haze and occasional sunny breaks. The forecast rain moved through to the north of the count area and all that was seen here during the day were a few sprinkles. Winds were light and variable early becoming light to moderate east-southeast at mid morning. Raptor Observations: The flight was an improvement over the previous day particularly in regards to diversity but still quite slow overall. Non-raptor Observations: Monarchs were again today very numerous and in the few years that I have been coming to this area to count hawks, this has been the most impressive fall movement of this migrant. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/
