Harold Nordin, Howard Weinberg, Peder Svingen, my son, Anthony, and I enjoyed a pleasant day hawk watching below Enger Tower on W. Skyline Drive, Duluth today, 14 April. Raptor highlights were great looks at an adult Red-shouldered Hawk and the season's first Broad-winged Hawk, rather incongruously flying over snow and ice, and missing record earliest by one day. The first Song Sparrow of the season greeted us this morning. Period covered was from 9-3 CST. W/NW winds to about 10 mph with a high temperature of 53 F; the morning sky was virtually cloudless with increasing clouds in the afternoon with scattered areas of sprinkles by 2:30 CST, which shut down a nice flight as follows:
Turkey Vulture: 45 Osprey: 1 Bald Eagle: 206 (36 ad./170 imm.) Northern Harrier: 1 Cooper's Hawk: 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk: 95 Red-tailed Hawk: 188 Rough-legged Hawk: 15 Broad-winged Hawk: 1 Red-shouldered Hawk: 1 American Kestrel: 1 Merlin: 2 Total: 557 Dave Carman Duluth, Minnesota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070414/ea5993db/attachment-0001.html