DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 10, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 24 98 98 Osprey 4 47 47 Bald Eagle 3 24 24 Northern Harrier 2 18 18 Sharp-shinned Hawk 23 139 139 Cooper's Hawk 4 21 21 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 167 202 202 Red-tailed Hawk 5 44 44 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 19 42 42 Merlin 0 4 4 Peregrine Falcon 0 2 2 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 Total: 251 641 641 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan Observers: Jim Maki, Rodney Laura, Ron Harkness, Terry Angevine Visitors: Saul Hanft Joan Tisdale Jim Lynch Robert Epstein Weather: Sunny skies prevailed throughout the day today with some nice cumulous in the afternoon as a background for finding high-flying migrants. Light east-northeast winds early in the day gradual made their way around to the southeast by early afternoon, remaining light for the most part. Raptor Observations: The flight overall today was much lighter than anticipated with a few small groups of Broad-wings seen in mid morning not leading to any sustained movement of birds. There was however several small kettles noted in the latter part of the afternoon, a good omen for tomorrow I should think. The largest of these groups was in the ballpark of 35-40 birds. Most other species were recorded in small numbers although TVs and Kestrels saw their biggest movements so far this fall, albeit in quite unimpressive totals overall. Non-raptor Observations: It seems that the clear skies overnight emptied the area of much of the passerine activity that had been so prevalent the last few days. The most obvious non-raptor migrant during the day today was Chimney Swift along with pretty good numbers of Northern Rough-winged Swallows. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([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 instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
