DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 24, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 1 205 205 Osprey 0 40 40 Bald Eagle 1 42 42 Northern Harrier 1 68 68 Sharp-shinned Hawk 11 1382 1382 Cooper's Hawk 0 72 72 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 1 Broad-winged Hawk 13 19777 19777 Red-tailed Hawk 3 93 93 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 1 277 277 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: 31 21992 21992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:30:00 Observation end time: 11:00:00 Total observation time: 3.5 hours Official Counter: Seth Cutright Observers: Raburn Howland Visitors: Around 20 or so people came by today. Weather: Weather today was clear visibility and light North or North-East winds. They were between 3-6 and 5-10MPH. Raptor Observations: Today was the best day of the past three days. Not that it was hard to do so. We started out at the normal hawk count site, Lake Erie Metropark, but at around 10:30 two counters were sent over to the second count site, Pointe Mouillee SGA. For the fist 30 mins. both sites were about the same. Then after the first full hour at the SGA it was clear that the SGA was better. It was still kind of slow, but also steady at the same time. At this site 97 Sharp-shinned Hawks were counted. 27 Red-tailed Hawks were nice to see, along with 2 Peregrine Falcons. Non-raptor Observations: Walking the tail early in the day at the Lake Erie Metropark site I was able to find a few warblers. Also one Swainson's Thrush and one Gray-cheeked Thrush. Again a good number of Blue Jays went over, (~2000). Predictions: Friday looks to be about the same, but maybe have winds more from the East. The count should be about like today. But rain is likely Saturday so birds might move a head of that. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Greg Norwood (greg_norw...@fws.gov) 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 ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
