DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 25, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 88 293 293 Osprey 0 40 40 Bald Eagle 1 43 43 Northern Harrier 5 73 73 Sharp-shinned Hawk 42 1424 1424 Cooper's Hawk 5 77 77 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 1 Broad-winged Hawk 125 19902 19902 Red-tailed Hawk 11 104 104 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 19 296 296 Merlin 0 22 22 Peregrine Falcon 0 11 11 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Mississippi Kite 0 1 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 1 Total: 296 22288 22288 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 6.25 hours Official Counter: Seth Cutright Observers: Darlene Friedman, Fred Kirn, John Elliott Visitors: Around 15 people came by. Weather: The weather today was East-North-East at around 10-20MPH. It was clear visibility with 75-90% cloud cover. Raptor Observations: Today was about like yesterday. 125 Broad-winged Hawks and 88 Turkey Vultures made up most of the flight. Most birds were very high up. Non-raptor Observations: I started at Lake Erie Metropark today, with winds around 5-10MPH and from the North-East. Moved to Mouillee SGA for about an hour. Nothing going on there so moved back to the Metropark. Then things started to pick up there, it was slow at times but also active other times. Predictions: Saturday looks like to have rain maybe all day if not chances on and off all day. Sunday looks like South-West winds, but chances of rain maybe Monday so things could move on Sunday. Tuesday or some time early this next week highs should be in the low to mid 60's only so some kind of cold front is going to move in or over, sot that should get the birds on the move again. Kind of start the early Fall push. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Greg Norwood ([email protected]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/ _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
