SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 12, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 2 3669 72953 Osprey 0 1 225 Bald Eagle 1 13 191 Northern Harrier 152 224 986 Sharp-shinned Hawk 15 267 8391 Cooper's Hawk 7 109 694 Northern Goshawk 0 1 7 Red-shouldered Hawk 45 597 839 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 67956 Red-tailed Hawk 256 2929 5101 Rough-legged Hawk 13 17 24 Golden Eagle 6 61 80 American Kestrel 1 7 1860 Merlin 0 3 45 Peregrine Falcon 1 5 46 Unknown Short-eared Owl 1 1 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 9 Total: 500 7904 159408 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:30:00 Observation end time: 15:15:00 Total observation time: 6.75 hours Official Counter: Jeff Schultz Observers: Calvin Brennan, Jeff Loughman, Patrick Mulawa Visitors: Robert Epstein Chuck Owens Tex Wells Skip Zabel Darlene Friedman Don Sherwood Gloria Harkness Ron Harkness Weather: Overcast conditions persisted today despite the forecast for at least partly sunny skies for some portion of the day. Winds were generally very light and varied from west-northwest to east-northeast. Raptor Observations: There was a very large push of Northern Harriers early in the day, in numbers that would be impressive any time of the season but particularly so in mid November. The first couple of hours of the count brought groups of 5,6,7 at a time but included an instance when 26 were in the sky at once, the largest single group in view numbering 17 individuals. The largest single hour tally was 80 birds. Many adults were involved with this movement including lots of adult males and one group of 5 harriers contained a Short-eared Owl, the first recorded on the count in a couple of years. Other highlights of the day included the best movement of Rough-legged Hawks thus far for the fall, recorded as 11 light-morph and 2 dark-morph individuals. Two adult dark-morph Red-tailed Hawks were also noted. Non-raptor Observations: ======================================================================== Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/
