SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 05, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 281 3114 72398 Osprey 0 1 225 Bald Eagle 2 9 187 Northern Harrier 12 45 807 Sharp-shinned Hawk 23 186 8310 Cooper's Hawk 9 74 659 Northern Goshawk 0 0 6 Red-shouldered Hawk 88 444 686 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 67956 Red-tailed Hawk 399 2197 4369 Rough-legged Hawk 1 2 9 Golden Eagle 9 41 60 American Kestrel 1 5 1858 Merlin 0 3 45 Peregrine Falcon 1 4 45 Unknown Swainson's Hawk 0 0 9 Total: 826 6125 157629 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Jeff Schultz Observers: Calvin Brennan, Josh Haas, Scott Jennex Visitors: Robert Epstein Tim Smart Bob Pettit Don Sherwood Richard Naber et al. Chuck Owens Gloria Harkness Ron Harkness Joe Bartell Weather: Mostly cloudy conditions early gave way to sunny skies by late morning. Heavier cloud cover rolled into the area again as the afternoon progressed. Winds were light to moderate south-southwest becoming south-southeast in the afternoon. Raptor Observations: The flight picked up sharply today when the skies brightened in the morning and dropped off just as quickly when the cloud cover became reestablished in the afternoon. Todays movement was remarkable similar to the last several days in diversity and numbers of each species recorded. Also as yesterday, many of the birds crossed well to the north but enough were over the count area to give most of the watchers good looks at a number of species. Non-raptor Observations: Highlighting the day was a juvenile Northern Gannet seen during pre-count wanderings at 8:45 am. The bird was seen in flight over the mouth of the Detroit River near Celeron Island as it made several circles around before disappearing behind the island. It was not seen again after that point. Also at about 2:30 pm, 2 probable Cave Swallows were seen near Celeron Island. These birds may have roosted in the Fragmites along that shoreline and will perhaps reappear from that general location tomorrow. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/
