SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 27, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 2900 49079 53409 Osprey 1 29 246 Bald Eagle 0 38 181 Northern Harrier 5 68 351 Sharp-shinned Hawk 50 2236 6595 Cooper's Hawk 31 363 576 Northern Goshawk 1 15 15 Red-shouldered Hawk 49 511 558 Broad-winged Hawk 0 7 185382 Red-tailed Hawk 420 4173 4988 Rough-legged Hawk 11 56 56 Golden Eagle 7 21 22 American Kestrel 1 122 1001 Merlin 0 10 51 Peregrine Falcon 0 16 35 Unknown 0 0 0 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 2 Total: 3476 56744 253468 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan Observers: Jim Maki, Terry Angevine, Walt Pawloski Weather: Today began mostly overcast and hazy with light to moderate north winds. Gradual clearing took place over the course of the day with the winds picking up out of the east-northeast. Observations: A steady movement of birds was recorded starting in mid morning and continuing through the remainder of the day. The flight was spread out over much of the sky, although there were few birds that crossed to the south over the lake, a bit surprising given the wind direction. Highlighting the day was the best showing so far this fall for Golden Eagles, several passing directly over the count area. Among the Red-tails was a dark morph adult. We seem to be having a banner year on dark morph Red-tails with a dozen or so seen already this season. This was also a very good migration day for crows with large numbers coming through all day long numbering certainly in the 10s of thousands. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/
