It was a pleasure spending the day back on the hawkwatch platform at Braddock Bay today - March 26th (near Rochester, Monroe County). Despite northeasterly breezes, there was a great movement and many highlights (58 species seen from the platform today). Total hawk count was 1, 305. I've included raptor and other highlights below, including a previously found Northern Saw-whet Owl.
Red-throated Loon - 1 Double-crested Cormorant -7 17 duck species Wood Duck - 10+ Turkey Vulture - 1,203 Osprey - 1 Bald Eagle - 1 juvenile migrant and 1 adult local Northern Harrier - 11 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 14 Red-shouldered Hawk - 7 Red-tailed Hawk - 56 Rough-legged Hawk - 3 (1 light adult female, 1 dark, 1 light) Golden Eagle - 1 subadult American Kestrel - 6 Sandhill Crane - 2 Killdeer - 3 Bonaparte's Gull - 25+ (some moving west up high) Northern Saw-whet Owl - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Tree Swallow - 2 Eastern Meadowlark - 1 Brett Ewald Lakeshore Nature Tours 716-628-8226 [email protected] www.LakeshoreNatureTours.com Like Us on Facebook -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
