DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 29, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 120 53082 53828 Osprey 0 3 46 Bald Eagle 0 45 93 Northern Harrier 2 69 144 Sharp-shinned Hawk 10 1578 3150 Cooper's Hawk 1 181 268 Northern Goshawk 0 14 14 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 345 346 Broad-winged Hawk 0 82 20016 Red-tailed Hawk 82 1332 1448 Rough-legged Hawk 2 5 5 Golden Eagle 5 61 61 American Kestrel 0 130 435 Merlin 0 14 36 Peregrine Falcon 0 18 32 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 12 12 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Mississippi Kite 0 0 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 3 4 Total: 223 56974 79939 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 10:30:00 Observation end time: 15:45:00 Total observation time: 5.25 hours Official Counter: Seth Cutright Observers: Darlene Friedman, Fred Kirn, Raburn Howland, Rodney Laura Visitors: Around 8 or so people came out today. Weather: Thick fog early so did not start until around 11:30am when it started to get a little lighter out and the fog started to move away a little. I could not even see the house on the first part of land right across from the count location, when I first got to the count. Wind was around 0-10mph all day. At first it was from the North-East. Then it changed to East for last part of the day. It went from 100% cloudy down to 75% cloudy late in the day. It also went from very thick fog to mostly clear with only a little fog left over. Raptor Observations: Two times the fog cleared away a little and when it did a good movement of birds went on. With mostly Turkey Vultures and Red-tailed Hawks moving. Just before 3:00pm the fog cleared away for good and then lots of Red-tailed Hawks went by with 40 in the 3-4pm hour. Also in that hour 2 Rough-legged Hawks and 3 Golden Eagles went over. In all 120 Turkey Vultures, 82 Red-tailed Hawks, and 5 Golden Eagles were counted. Non-raptor Observations: It was also neat to see 3 American Coots fly by high up in the sky. Well just above tree top level, so high up in the sky as far as Coots go. Predictions: It should be strong West-South-West winds so I would guess it will be slow. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Seth Cutright ([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/
